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?
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?
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.
Here’s a video of live coding a game in CIDER (which is like SLIME for Clojure - another Lisp).
+1 for long talking. My attempt at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM 5min, shows how we can restart a running program from any point in the stack trace, without restarting the program from zero.
Some more I recommend: https://www.cliki.net/Lisp Videos
It is difficult to find good demonstration videos. Here is another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM
Emacs with Elisp btw. is working alike. So you could experience that “Lisp experience” yourself easily, just by modifying Emacs itself. You can change ca. 99% of it on the fly, redefine whole parts of its functionality without need to restart Emacs. Sometimes that’s not realized. Together with
edebug, its good in-code documented functions and introspectibility it is a nice programming experience. Sometimes I miss that tight integration with Common Lisp.