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Comment by swannodette | Hacker News Reader

The state of Lisp programming on OS X is quite good. Things I've tried:

  * Clozure MCL, excellent Mac integration no need to use Emacs
  * LispWorks, good Lisp IDE, free for personal use, no 
    need to use Emacs
  * PLT Racket, good Scheme IDE, no need to use Emacs
  * Clojure, Cake make's it a cinch, you can use TextMate

If you're going to go with Emacs, for Common Lisp, Cocoa Emacs 23 plus Slime is great, Cocoa Emacs 23 plus Quack for Scheme is great.

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"no need to use Emacs" Not being able to use Emacs is a feature?

Worth telling because Emacs is a kickass IDE for Lisp and most people use it, but it's kind of scary to beginners.

On Mac there's MCLIDE: http://mclide.in-progress.com/

It's not Emacs but it speaks SWANK, so it works with a bunch of Lisps.

If you're going to go with Emacs, any of these options are suddenly much brighter ;-)

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