Then you have Portacle ! Emacs isn't the only editor too: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cook

Then you have Portacle ! Emacs isn't the only editor too: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Lem is also a ready-to-use editor (ncurses or Electron)(but Emacs+Slime is still the best experience (maybe vim?)) You can follow this guide to get started too: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/getting-started.html https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/getting-started.h... And hopefully this Cookbook will help you along the way: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ Quicklisp takes a couple commands to install, then it's easy. To install a library: `(ql:quickload :my-lib)`. Thinks of it closer to apt than to pip/npm, so you don't upgrade one lib but a QL distribution. You don't really have to deal with asdf. It is used to create a project declaration, which can be generated for you (see "getting started", cl-project). ASDF helps in creating executables, it's also explained in the cookbook.