You don't need to use Emacs to write Lisp, just like you don't need to use the ISPF dataset editor to write COBOL. That said, unlike COBOL, most of whose progr

You don't need to use Emacs to write Lisp, just like you don't need to use the ISPF dataset editor to write COBOL. That said, unlike COBOL, most of whose programmers these days use Visual Studio Code or a modern IDE, Emacs is still the best readily available support one can get for Lisp programming -- and that's kind of a black mark against Lisp. I really wish Allegro or somebody would deliver a modern IDE for an affordable price, or at least good VSCode plugin support.