Review of 8 Common Lisp IDEs Which One to Choose? [EN Subs]

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13 points·svetlyak40wt··5 comments

Interesting comparison, thanks; the window based tools don't seem to have much advantage compared to e.g. SLIME, isn't it? Allegro doesn't even have syntax coloring.

Which IDE is the author using and does he have real project experience with it?

> window based tools don't seem to have much advantage compared to e.g. SLIME, isn't it?

One advantage for a lot of people is that other IDEs don't use GNU Emacs. That's an often requested feature. Another advantage is that one gets more developments tools, incl. various browsers, a GUI toolkit, an interface builder, more native look&feel on platforms like Windows/Linux+Gtk/macOS, ...

Allegro CL has syntax coloring, but not in the web version as it is now.

I'm the author and I'm using Emacs + SLY. Happily switched to Emacs from VIM about 10 years ago when decided to invest all my free time into Common Lisp.

And yes, I have real project experience – a lot of Commmon Lisp libraries at https://github.com/40ants and also I'm developing a hosting for CL library distributions: https://ultralisp.org

Common Lisp is alive. Don't believe me? Look at this video describing 8 programming environments supporting Common Lisp.

Turn on English subtitles if Russian is not your native language.

I'm the author of the video, so you can ask me any questions.

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