But, you have choices. Correct. It would be nice if they were appropriately presented to beginners. like allegro for example that comes with a nice IDE: a

But, you have choices. Correct. It would be nice if they were appropriately presented to beginners. like allegro for example that comes with a nice IDE: allegro-composer. Do you... use Allegro? Do you find it good? Have you used LispWorks? In the past couple/few years, Franz introduced a single-stepper.[1] They released a video alongside the new feature, demonstrating it. Literally, by 20 minutes into the video, the narrator was still mucking about with configuration and such and hadn't gotten to the point of being able to single-step through Lisp code. (Also, Allegro's licensing terms require a runtime license fee for every unit of software developed with Allegro that you distribute. LispWorks' do not.) [1] (It's unconscionable to me that that could be a new-ish feature. I don't even know that I had heard of the term "single-stepper" prior to that - I always just assumed it was a natural v0.1 part of a debugger that didn't bear even mentioning. But what can you do...)