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Too complicated. Those quicklisp and slime is not easy for starter (but sort of essential as lots of functions can be obtained via this distribution manager).
by ngcc_hk 6y ago
Too complicated. Those quicklisp and slime is not easy for starter (but sort of essential as lots of functions can be obtained via this distribution manager).
The approach he tried is using as simple as one can. I guess the only thing missing is if you were mac and windows user ...
- phoe-krk 6y agoYes - Portacle is an amazing piece of software and also the way to go for someone who just wants to check Lisp out on Mac/Win/Linux, but it also has its issues, e.g. with some systems that depend on foreign libraries. Also, if someone already has emacs set up and preconfigured, there's no point in adding another emacs instance with a distinct configuration for long-term programming.
- rvense 6y agoI found getting slimv and sbcl running to be quite easy. If you're used to vim and console apps it's straight forward.
- susam 6y agoLast week, I shared a 35 line ~/.emacs (as a Show HN post) that turns Emacs into a Common Lisp development environment pretty quickly: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . It provides a good middle ground between configuring Emacs manually by installing SLIME, Paredit, etc. yourself with M-x package-install commands and installing Portacle. It promotes a do-it-yourself approach to setting up Emacs for Common Lisp programming quickly while understanding each step of the set up process and each line of ~/.emacs well.