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If you lost interest in the language and won't take it up again because a feature you don't NEED (and is in fact unrelated to the language itself), then I'm pre
by 59nadir 11y ago
If you lost interest in the language and won't take it up again because a feature you don't NEED (and is in fact unrelated to the language itself), then I'm prepared to say that's not really the problem here.
You're just not that into it and blaming SLIME or anything else that's part of the ecosystem is just misguided and wrong.
You compare SLIME with Visual Studio when they have almost nothing in common and most lispers detest the idea that you have to have something like Visual <anything> to work with a language.
If you really want to learn Lisp, sit down with an editor and start running code instead of trying to optimize for a problem you're likely never to stumble upon. When you get it, you'll gladly write Lisp even if they mandate that you're only allowed to use a chisel and stone tablets.
- pjmlp 11y agoAre you aware that Smalltalk and Interlisp-D/Lisp Machines kind of defined how the first IDEs looked like? It is kind of sad that one of the oldest languages that was in the genesis of IDEs and interactive programming should be like, only has Emacs nowadays in its open source offerings.
- 59nadir 11y agoIf you're talking about Symbolics Lisp machines I fail to see how the mess that is today's crowded IDEs full of crap have much in common with them. They had powerful tools for introspection and inspection and that seems to me like their defining features. That's a legacy that SLIME carries with it way more than any IDE for any IDE-heavy language.