alt Hacker NewsLem is still too Emacs-like.
I'm talking about beginners, not seasoned Lisp hands, most of whom—until the great boomer dieoff occurs at least—are already comfortable in Emacs. If you're still just finding your feet in Lisp, you're not aware enough of its tremendous power to miss it from your IDE. You're just wondering why you have to Escape Meta Alt Control Shift to get anything done instead of, you know, just using the menu and mouse commands and keyboard shortcuts that literally everyone else uses.
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skydhash • today at 1:19 AM
You can always start the REPL on its own and start playing that way.
Or use something like:
sbcl --load <filename>
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> I'm talking about beginners
If the beginners are curious about Lisp and insist on using VSCode, they can install Calva and try Clojure. It takes less than a minute and it has a really good "quick start" guide. There's no rule that says you have to get into Lisp specifically via SBCL. Once you grok structural editing and REPL-driven workflow, jumping between different Lisp dialects is not that hard.
And if a programmer refuses to learn a new language, technique or paradigm just because their favorite editor doesn't support it... well, that is sad, but also - not everyone has to be passionate about their work, huge sectors of the economy are driven by mediocre players and that is just fine. Passionate programmers sooner or later find their way to Lisp.