As a programmer for over 2 decades, I permanently stopped using IDEs and text editors this year. It’s really cool to see projects support legacy concepts and ideas though. Love this!

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girvo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Two decades professionally here too (and nearly three in terms of programming as a whole), and I still use ‘em. Reviewing and adjusting, they make for quite a good experience even in agent-first development with the various nice extensions.

Also I still have to write code by hand, because there’s a whole bunch of edits and adjustments that I’m far faster at shrug

	▲	threethirtytwo 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Also I still have to write code by hand, because there’s a whole bunch of edits and adjustments that I’m far faster at shrug I'm faster too, in general. The thing is now with AI I'm working on at least 3 to 4 projects in parallel. I tell the AI to do an edit and I context switch to something else. shrug

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bitwize 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then you are probably not interested in this work at all. It is meant to develop Lisp—a language whose primary advantage in 2026 is ergonomics to humans, particularly a certain kind of human. If you're doing 100% agentic development, that advantage disappears and you might as well use something popular and statically typed, like Rust or TypeScript.

	▲	wild_egg an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Technically, I think this is meant to develop Coalton, which is also statically typed and incredibly effective as a language for agents. All those ergonomic benefits that humans enjoy also allow AIs to develop lisp systems quite rapidly and robustly.
	▲	threethirtytwo 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not true. Are people not interested in archeology or history or museums? Denying such things as invalid is offensive. There are projects to reproduce things from ancient history like the Lycurgus cup.

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greggroth 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same. It's an awkward time to develop a new IDE.

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nocman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

nothing awkward about it.

IMHO, It's a better time than ever to develop a new IDE. Just make one that cares deeply about performance (i.e loads instantly, and always has a snappy response). Make features easy to control. Allow me to turn on only the things I care about and to shut the rest off.

I can't even remember the last time I was impressed by the speed of an IDE, though we have more computing power now than ever. I'd love to see someone new come in and wipe the floor with all of the current contenders.

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threethirtytwo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s not awkward at all. It’s a fun project and neat. I support these types of projects. I guess I’m being voted down because people hate IDEs and text editors now.

I think it’s wrong to trash this project just because it’s an older concept.

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eikenberry 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You are being downvoted for calling IDEs and text editors legacy, which is seen as signalling and not contributing to the conversation.

	▲	threethirtytwo 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Oh one Adjective "legacy"? And that threw people off? Ok replace that with "cool" and I wouldn't get downvotes? Geeze