April 01, 2023

Review of 8 Common Lisp IDEs! Which one to choose? [turn-on EN subtitles]

In this video, I use one simple example to show working with Common Lisp in eight different IDEs. Here are the possibilities we will be looking at:

Access to documentation.

Auto-completion.

Syntax highlighting.

Structural code editing.

Code navigation.

Working with the Lisp image.

REPL functionality.

Debugger and restarts.

Object inspector.

Macro disclosure.

Follow the timecodes to the IDE you are interested in:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:39 Emacs + SLY

00:12:08 Portacle

00:28:17 VIM + Slimv

00:37:56 LEM

00:49:03 LispWorks

01:12:30 AllegroCL

01:32:31 VSCode + Alive

01:49:31 Intellij IDEA + SLT

02:05:59 Total

Links

IDE

Emacs + SLY: http://joaotavora.github.io/sly/

Portacle: https://portacle.github.io/

Vim + Slimv: https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv

LEM: https://github.com/lem-project/lem

LispWorks: http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html#personal

AllegroCL: https://franz.com/downloads/clp/survey

VSCode + Alive: https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive

Intellij IDEA + SLT: https://github.com/Enerccio/SLT

Additional materials

Slimv tutorial: https://kovisoft.github.io/slimv-tutorial/tutorial.html

VSCode + Alive tutorial: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/vscode-alive.html

SLT documentation: https://github.com/Enerccio/SLT/wiki/User-Guide

LEM Solarized theme: https://github.com/40ants/lem-solarized

Pareto analog of Lispy for structural editing in LEM: https://github.com/40ants/lem-pareto

Extensions for LispWorks: https://ultralisp.org/dists/lispworks

Parinfer for VSCode: https://github.com/oakmac/vscode-parinfer

Common Lisp Restarts: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-conditions-and-restarts.html

Repl for Roswell: https://github.com/koji-kojiro/cl-repl

Tags

#commonlisp #ide #review

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