#spacemacs ... sell me.
I have started to do a bit more #isp and lisp like language things. This just generally pushes me into the #emacs world (just feels wrong doing lisp stuff in Vim). But if I am going to gear up and retool Emacs to use, maybe it is time to reconsider Spacemacs.
I am open minded enough to consider facts in making a decision. :)
A bunch of my coworkers use #spacemacs. I have never tried it, and regular #emacs is so much a part of my lizard brain, after using it daily since about 1984 (zmacs on a Symbolics Lisp machine first), that I probably never will. It's always the first thing I install on a new Mac, Linux, or Windows machine. I basically LIVE in #emacs, and #slime.
@billstclair Well, that is the choices #emacs + #slime or #sly ....
Or #spacemacs with #lisp layer. Probably ultimately 6 of 1...
If you're doing lisp development, you'll want #slime, whether you use #spacemacs or plain #emacs. I also highly recommend #quicklisp as well, not just plain #asdf.
@billstclair so #slime and not #sly then? I think I have quicklisp, that is loading the stuff qith ql:quicklad to get lisp-unit.
@billstclair that's what I thought. So it sounds like CCL is alive and kicking, that would be a decent one to use over gcl, sbcl, or CLISP?
I use CCL every day. One project also works in SBCL and LIspworks.
I recommend the April 2019 1.12 snapshot, then `(rebuild-ccl :full t)` as described.
https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/tag/v1.12-dev.5
Rebuilding the CCL kernel requires a standard `gcc` development environment plus the `m4` macro processor. In Ubuntu, that's the `build-essential` and `m4` apt packages.
@billstclair excellent, I may just do that tonight. I feel so special! Like I have an "in" :)
ql:quickload is indeed quicklisp. I have never even heard of #sly, so I can't compare.