alive VS vlime

You may be interested in https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive which brings the power of slime to vscode (Mostly, it's relatively new and missing some features, but getting better all the time)

I’ve recently been enjoying using Alive with vscode(and copilot). Everyone suggests emacs+slime but it always felt like too many things to learn at once. Being able to use my usual ide has made it so much more pleasant. Recommend it to newcomers.

https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive

I was motivated to learn some lisp last year but couldn't find any usable plugins for IntelliJ (and I refuse to learn Emacs). I ended up using VSCode with the Alive extension: https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive

Also perhaps collab with this dev. https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive

I also read up on alternatives, and also tried out the alive VSCode extension. Unfortunately, I could not get it to work on my machine.

My recommendation would be Alive, a Visual Studio Code extension. It still has a few rough edges (for example, one bug I tripped on is that it doesn’t work super great with VSCode’s anonymous tabs, it apparently expects a file on disk), but is still far and away the best free non-emacs CL development environment I’ve used.

https://github.com/vlime/vlime works for me fine

You should try out Vlime, it is a bit janky but it beats copy-pasting into a terminal any day.

Maybe you should stick to one new thing at a time. Vim is more than capable of handling Common Lisp. Look at Slimv and Vlime for vim-style SLIME. Focus on CL first. You can come back to Doom / Emacs later.

Neovim works just fine. I use Neoterm to send-to-repl, here's what my config looks like. Your other options include vlime and slimv. I switched to neoterm because it's simple, explicit, and doesn't create unpredictable windows. Works for any other language just as well.

A proper Neovim client for Slime or Sly. The closest is Vlime, but its UI is really janky.

Join me vim brother and don't settle for forcing yourself to use emacs while developing in CL when you don't have to! You even have two vim options! https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv and https://github.com/vlime/vlime with a great comparison of the two: https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

If you're interested more in Common Lisp, there's both vlime and vim-slime however I don't have any experience with them.

I think I'll dig at vimtutor within a few days, then. I've seen it mentioned a few times already, so now's a good time I reckon. Like you said, I'll be avoiding plugins, but with the guide I referenced, vlime is mentioned. You don't think that'll be too problematic on Windows, do you? I recall seeing that plenty of plugins don't work outside of linux. Thanks again, btw!

That's quite a tough question because different people appreciate different things about Emacs. Personally I use Neovim as my text editor with Vlime for live Common Lisp integration (works with Vim as well). Vlime uses the same backend as Slime for Emacs, so the features should be the same, even if the interface is different. I know there is also Slima for Atom, but I have never used Atom, so no idea how well it works.