I can't recommend slime highly enough - I miss something comparable now that I'm hacking Python.
Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
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Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#12Nedit is very nice.
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the info! I was more tending towards Scheme than Common LISP, does that make a difference?
The best Scheme IDE probably is DrScheme (plt-scheme.org)
I use DrScheme every day. It's pretty good and getting better - they just added autocompletion (only for the standard library, not for your own bound variables) for example.
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#14Besides Slime, there's also the Cusp plugin for Eclipse (although I haven't used it):
http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/index.html
And for Scheme/Emacs there's Quack (google quack.el)
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#15Vim and SBCL.
How do you interact with your REPL? SBCL is designed around SLIME. I find it virtually unusable without it.
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#16I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.
Performance Note: Our code is running at least 10x faster on Ubuntu with SBCL over Lispworks on Windows
Really? That is a lot. I noticed a factor of two when I moved from CLisp to SBCL, and I was under the impression that CLisp is generally the slowest implementation.
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#17Nedit is very nice.
Can Nedit send expressions from the file you're editing to a REPL? I think that's a requirement for a decent Lisp editor.
Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#18Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?
#19I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.
Performance Note: Our code is running at least 10x faster on Ubuntu with SBCL over Lispworks on Windows
Do you attribute most of the difference in performance to the OS change or to the implementation change, though? (I'll never use Windows, but I've been considering using Lispworks again on OS X for a few things.) I've always used LW with Emacs in the past, not the LW IDE. I use Aquamacs for almost everything now...and SLIME is great.
What Lisp libs are you using, if you don't mind my asking? I'm trying to figure out why CL-Memcached is slower than freaking PHP and Python for most things (!)
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