alt Hacker NewsDifferences I see with cl-repl (https://github.com/lisp-maintainers/cl-repl):
- icl doesn't have an interactive debugger, you ask for the backtrace with ,bt. cl-repl has one (less feature complete than Slime). I actually like the lack of a debugger for newcomers.
- icl: does auto-indentation right
- cl-repl: has an %edit command to launch an editor and load the file content on close.
- icl: better, prettier autocompletion with a drop-down. cl-repl is based on readline.
- icl: based on Slime's backend, so you can connect to another running image.
- cl-repl: has a ! shortcut to execute a shell command.
- cl-repl might be faster to launch.
big thanks to atgreen for all the nice projects!
Thanks, vinderal. Since you wrote this the other day, I've improved the auto-completion so it is more context-aware. For instance, it will auto-complete using your filesystem when it is reasonably sure that you are trying to reference a filename. There's also a new interactive object inspector TUI, and a super-experimental `,explain` command. `,explain` will fire up gemini/claude cli to have it explain the last command/result/error. It provides temporary access to an icl mcp service so the AI can use tools for read-only access to your running lisp image.