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Do I really need to use SLIME for Lisp programming? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by supercompass@alien.top to c/lisp

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I have been wanting to program in lisp for a good while, but I do not enjoy using Emacs, and Slimv and Vlime haven't functioned. So, would having Vim in one terminal editing a file and then a REPL in another work?

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[–] supercompass@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

So then, what is the "Lisp experience", and why does everyone want it?

[–] stylewarning@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The development of a program is very incremental, immediate, and interactive. The idea of the editor and the program begin to blend. The cycle type between observing program behavior and changing program source is trivialized and almost not even noticeable. In the end it allows you to converge on ideas very, very rapidly. Programming in other languages/environments feels like having asthma.

The problem is that describing this never really makes sense.

[–] LordLargo@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is there a video we can see what this is like? I have looked it up and often the videos are like an hour long and there is more talking than showing.

[–] therealdivs1210@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Here's a video of live coding a game in CIDER (which is like SLIME for Clojure - another Lisp).

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