> - Every day that passes, the gulf between Lisp's tooling and what a typical user expects grows wider. It needs to escape Emacs and SLIME to something that feels complete and polished.

Can you give specific examples of "what a typical user expects" that are missing from Emacs-based programming environments (SLIME, and/or others)? I'm not suggesting there aren't any, I'd just like to know your list.

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Pay08 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Better syntax highlighting immediately comes to mind. Maybe code actions/automatic refactoring too.

	▲	skydhash 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lisp does not have that much syntax for highlighting to be a problem. Lisp is also a symbolic language. Meaning the code work on symbols, not data, only at evaluation the value of the symbol is known. There’s a lot of symbols manipulation routines like macros, intern, package loading,… that prevent to statically know the code. It’s why people use the REPL flow.