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dmuxyesterday at 10:17 PM1 replyview on HN

LispWorks and Allegro are both interesting, but I've found their IDE offerings to be very limited. I haven't used either since I was playing around with CL during Covid, but from what I recall, even the basic IDE experience of writing code was severely lacking: poor autocomplete, poor syntax highlighting, clunky interfaces. In most discussions I see about them, they're only recommended for their compilers, not for their IDE offerings.


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vindarelyesterday at 10:50 PM

I think LispWorks is fine (also look at these plugins https://github.com/apr3vau/lw-plugins - terminal integration, code folding, side tree, markdown highlighting, Nerd Fonts, fuzzy-matching, enhanced directory mode, expand region, pair editing, SVG rendering…) but I had this feeling with the newer web-based Allegro IDE (the poor syntax highlighting surprised me, did I do sthg wrong?).