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Exactly. Though, to be fair, if someone says they want to learn LISP and then you tell them to learn Emacs... well, now they have TWO problems! xD I love and

Exactly. Though, to be fair, if someone says they want to learn LISP and then you tell them to learn Emacs... well, now they have TWO problems! xD I love and use Emacs. And I also, unsurprisingly, don't like or recommend that people start off with all of these "starter packs". But at the same time, if you don't already know Emacs and you want to learn LISP, I don't know what I'd recommend.

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susam 6y ago
> But at the same time, if you don't already know Emacs and you want to learn LISP, I don't know what I'd recommend. Here is my attempt to make it easier to get started with vanilla Emacs + SLIME + SBCL without hiding the underlying details like a starter pack does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440690
mjul 6y ago
For Clojure, VSCode with the Calva and clj-kondo extensions installed is a pretty good, free starting point. Also, if you are used to the Jetbrains tools like IntelliJ, try the Cursive IDE (paid).
- harperlee 6y ago
  Cursive is free for non-commercial use.
- kls 6y ago
  I actually like the VS code tooling better than Cursive. Not knocking it, but have never felt lacking doing Clojure in VS Code.