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armitronyesterday at 10:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you're a power user, the sooner you learn Emacs the better as the synergies with any Lisp language (particularly Common Lisp) are simply too strong to be ignored and there is no contemporary alternative that rivals it.

For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative to messy things like Lem that never really worked very well for me.


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Pay08today at 4:25 AM

Problem is, Emacs is really slow on Windows. If I can get a reasonably fast Lisp IDE on Windows, I'm all for it.

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vfclistsyesterday at 11:16 PM

Lem doesn't claim to be a Lisp development environment or IDE. It describes itself as

General-purpose editor/IDE with high expansibility in Common Lisp

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