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After reading many think-pieces evangelising LISP, I decided to get into it. However, I hate Emacs. Is this going to be a problem long term? Right now I'm ent
by FredPret 3y ago
After reading many think-pieces evangelising LISP, I decided to get into it.
However, I hate Emacs.
Is this going to be a problem long term? Right now I'm entering code in a text editor, but I'm still solving toy learning problems only.
- dharmab 3y agoI used SBCL with Vim back in the day. (I have joint problems that make emacs keybinds literally painful). It worked fine, though I missed out in some features.
- cbreezyyall 3y agoI know other editors have their spinoffs but SLIME is the reason emacs is the go-to for lisp programming. it's really hard to beat that dev experience
- lispm 3y agoEMACS was always used for Lisp programming, since day zero. It had always a mode for Lisp programming. Later GNU Emacs became popular and it was partly written in Lisp. Thus it was not unusual for Lisp users to provide Emacs modes for hacking other Lisp dialects than Emacs Lisp, because they could easily program it. Before SLIME, there was an integrated extension, then ILISP and ELI (from Franz). Nowadays SLIME and SLY are mosly used as IDE extensions for GNU Emacs..
- nerdponx 3y agoNo. I use Vlime in Neovim and Slyblime in Sublime Text. I know it's not quite as amazing as the Emacs experience, but it does the job well enough.