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I recently tried learning CL, and was dismayed at the tooling. While Emacs + SLIME seems to be the recommended way to go, yielding great experience; I could no
by dhab 6y ago
I recently tried learning CL, and was dismayed at the tooling.
While Emacs + SLIME seems to be the recommended way to go, yielding great experience; I could not realise that because I could not get SLIME to work with EMACS, and couldn't get any help in resolving it.
This was after having it work on a previous macbook. Then changed the laptop, tried installing it and got stuck. Led me to give up learning it at all.
I'd like to add better onboarding to the list of things to improve
- heracles 6y agoThe article does mention Portacle, which is very easy to install on MacOS. I'd recommend you try it to see if there's any trouble.
- vindarel 6y agoI agree that was an issue. Now the SLIMA plugin for Atom is very good and getting very close to Slime. The ones for Sublime and VSCode are getting close too. Dandelion for Eclipse allows to get started very easily (but is less complete).
- jnxx 6y agomaybe you just need a Linux laptop, like some old Thinkpad with Ubuntu. Install time is 15 Minutes or so. Emacs is included by default.