I am moving away from VS Code and IntelliJ for this exact reason actually: on emacs, there's ALWAYS a package that supports anything you want. And it's so light

I am moving away from VS Code and IntelliJ for this exact reason actually: on emacs, there's ALWAYS a package that supports anything you want. And it's so lightweight compared to either VSCode and IntelliJ, it's really refreshing... Have you tried emacs/SLIME? It really isn't complicated, in fact it's the most straightforward stack I've ever tried except for maybe JS right on the browser.