Opensource IDEs for Lisp

Hello, all.

I’m very interested in learning Lisp but, due to having Catalina on my Mac, I would have to purchase the Hobbyist version .. The 32 version will not work and fails at installation. As a retiree I find the Hobbyist pricing untenable. To that end, do you have any open source options for learning?

Thanks,

Scott

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Re: Opensource IDEs for Lisp

On 8 Oct 2019, at 12:38, Scott Clausen wrote:

Hello, all.

I’m very interested in learning Lisp but, due to having Catalina on my Mac, I would have to purchase the Hobbyist version . The 32 version will not work and fails at installation. As a retiree I find the Hobbyist pricing untenable. To that end, do you have any open source options for learning?

Given that you are on the Mac, the obvious place to look would be Clozure Common Lisp (née Macintosh Common Lisp).

However, I am an old geezer and only run Lisp in Emacs, so I have no idea what the IDE for any Lisp is like. So this could be great, or atrocious: I don't know!

Re: Opensource IDEs for Lisp


Emacs with SBCL and Slime?

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Re: Opensource IDEs for Lisp

Hey Scott,

You might check out racket. It has a decent IDE and there is a bit of activity around it. It’s not Common Lisp… but if you don’t have a strict requirement I’d check it out. The brew cask version has been updated to 7.4 if you use homebrew… “brew cask install racket”… and is currently running for me on catalina.

https://racket-lang.org

Another option for a more “modern” lisp would be clojure or clojurescript. I have clojure 1.9 running on catalina at the moment.

https://clojure.org

https://clojurescript.org

Optionally, emacs & slime really are quite nice… but the learning curve is a bit steep. There are a number of lisps that should run on Catalina… sbcl, clisp, ccl, etc… they just might not be up-to-date enough to run today. The current homebrew install of sbcl is seg faulting for me in catalina at the moment. clisp seems to run fine. So does ccl. Be aware, I haven’t tested them extensively.

Sincerely,

Patrick Langford

NEURONSONG LLC

On Oct 8, 2019, at 11:38, Scott Clausen <scottclausen@mac.com> wrote:

Hello, all.

I’m very interested in learning Lisp but, due to having Catalina on my Mac, I would have to purchase the Hobbyist version . The 32 version will not work and fails at installation. As a retiree I find the Hobbyist pricing untenable. To that end, do you have any open source options for learning?

Thanks,

Scott

You can have your own opinions but you can’t have your own facts. Truth is not a democracy. It doesn’t give a shit what you believe.

— Ricky Gervais