lem VS cider

Compare lem vs cider and see what are their differences.

lem

Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility (by cxxxr)

cider

The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs (by clojure-emacs)
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lem cider
55 16
2,059 3,503
3.9% 0.4%
9.9 9.4
2 days ago 5 days ago
Common Lisp Emacs Lisp
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lem

Posts with mentions or reviews of lem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-16.

cider

Posts with mentions or reviews of cider. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.
  • CIDER 1.8 ("Geneva") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 15 Oct 2023
  • Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    > I do think cider (https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider) has stuff regarding stepping debuggers, but I'm not sure how common it is to use it. Maybe other Clojure users can fill me in :)

    I don't really care about stepping; for me the debugger is about inspecting the state of my program when an exception (maybe because I interrupted it, or because I inserted a breakpoint, or just because something went wrong) happens. Backtrace, local variables, evaluating forms at different stack frames and so-forth.

  • Datomic Is Now Free
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
  • CIDER 1.7 ("Côte d'Azur")
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 24 Mar 2023
  • CIDER 1.6 ("Buenos Aires") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 21 Dec 2022
  • CIDER 1.5 ("Strasbourg") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 24 Aug 2022
  • CIDER 1.4 ("Kyiv") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 2 May 2022
  • Thoughts on Clojure λ
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    This was a pain. I tried using vscode with calva, but gave up pretty soon after starting. Ended up using emacs with cider, which was pretty nice, but had a huge learning curve for me since I'm not an emacs user. (Maybe I am after this...)
  • On New IDEs
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 24 Nov 2021
    I was wondering that what the author and other redditors here would think of/about Cursive, an affordable IDE for Clojure, while they have cider in Emacs as well.
  • An Update on CIDER 1.2
    2 projects | /r/Clojure | 24 Nov 2021
    I'm very excited about sideloader feature in nREPL 0.9 and the corresponding ability for CIDER to upgrade the connection, adding its middleware. But I don't see this connection upgrading feature ticket #3037 in the plans for CIDER 1.2, but the sideloader ticket #246 is listed in the plans for nREPL 0.9. It seems that #3037 is held only by #246, so if it will be solved by the time 0.9 release, will there be plans to supporting it in CIDER 1.2?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lem and cider you can also consider the following projects:

emacs - My emacs configuration

doom - Doom Emacs config

emacs-anywhere - Configurable automation + hooks called with application information

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

Second-Climacs - Version 2 of the Climacs text editor.

origami.el - A folding minor mode for Emacs

mg - Micro (GNU) Emacs-like text editor ❤️ public-domain

inf-clojure - Basic interaction with a Clojure subprocess

lem-opengl - OpenGL frontend for the Lem text editor

nrepl - A Clojure network REPL that provides a server and client, along with some common APIs of use to IDEs and other tools that may need to evaluate Clojure code in remote environments.

emacs4cl - A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming

emacs-inspector - Inspection tool for Emacs Lisp objects.