Re:Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
by mark_l_watson on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:29AM
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Try just installing SBCL using Homebrew and then setup either VSCode or Emacs (or Vi, my last manager lived in Vi when doing Common Lisp and Clojure development).
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Yep installing any major (and even some of the minor) Common Lisp implementation(s) is very straightforward.
Emacs is my regular editor so I do use it when coding lisp but I don't use any extensions other than syntax highlighting (so no REPL or SLIME).
I sort of get the desire to use the "one click installers" like portacle but in reality they don't add very much and now you're dependent on a third-party system with less support than the language itself. It does not make sense to say Common Lisp on Mac is broken because a third-party installer isn't great.