Oh I guess my "assuming you don't want emacs, so..." was interpreted as a ding against emacs so I was downvoted...
I don't care about the downvote, but ftr, I a have been using emacs daily for about 25 years, spacemacs now, and love it. So there.
All I meant was that the OP I assumed knew about emacs and it's lisp history and was choosing Atom instead. The reason to do that would be learning curve, which I respect. Fair enough; I judge not. Just... you, know, for clarity.
Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015)
by jonathankoren on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:36PM
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FTR the reason why i don't use emacs is because it frustratingly has too many degrees of freedom, and thus is perpetually misconfigured, and I find it has atrocious UX.
The last emacs I used with any regularity was XEmacs.
If you don't mind branching out Racket w/Dr Racket is zero setup and great fun w/great docs. If you go Clojure, many options that don't require setup (LightTable, maybe, e.g). If you want to stay common lisp, Lisp Works has a "personal" and "hobby" version of their IDE and that's free, zero setup, and a mature IDE.