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You haven't actually told us anything except what you think is “crap”. Could you please be more informative and less rude in your comments?

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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I mentioned the problem Lem claims to solve and proved that there are existing solutions to that problem. I also put forth that Lem is inferior to Emacs/SLIME/Sly when writing Lisp which should be obvious to anyone with Emacs experience. Then I made additional points which at least two people found of interest and tried to provide answers to.

I'm pretty sure all of that does not translate in me not telling you anything.

There can be multiple solutions to one problem, there's nothing wrong with experimentation. You seem to think it's OK to call any Emacs competitor crapware?

I defined crapware as something which dilutes the space of good libraries, offers nothing new and pretends to solve non-existing problems. I made my case.

The problems GNU Emacs does not solve for a CL programmer is its generally clunky user interface, lack of GUI features, its non-reusability in a Common Lisp program and its non-source-compatibility with Common Lisp. GNU Emacs will always be an extra component to a CL program and rarely will be the right user interface for a CL program - even though the program might need editor functionality.

One can get very far with it, but for some the combination of above is enough reason to look for alternatives.

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