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My manager at my last job was a real wizard with Vim+Common Lisp, he was much more facile than I am with Emacs+CL.

To be honest, when I am reading other people’s Common Lisp code, if there are many files in their projects, I prefer VSCode. And for my own hacking joy I like LispWorks, usually using the IDE, but sometimes using Emacs.

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If you're using emacs as an IDE, what advantage do you get from using LispWorks over the free alternatives like SBCL?

LispWorks is a little more facile for me, I don’t think about the IDE, just think about the task on hand.

It is the same way with Clojure: IntelliJ+Cursive is just more facile for me than with Emacs.

From an IDE point of view, I reckon it's hard to tell for a Emacs user, but the sure thing is that LispWorks the editor has more graphical widgets. The graphical stepper for example is for sure easier to use and discover than the rest. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/lispworks.html LispWorks the implementation has a bunch of features.

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