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I've used Slime within Emacs as my primary development environment for Common Lisp (or Aquamacs on OS X), but are there other compelling choices out there? I've heard about Lispworks, but is that [or something else] worth looking at? Or does anyone have tips to getting the most out of Emacs (e.g., hooking it up to the hyperspec for easy reference)?
Update: Section 7 of Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp give one perspective. But to me, SLIME really seems to be where it's at.
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SLIME is the most widely-used Common Lisp IDE. Portacle is a portable and multiplatform development environment. It includes Emacs with Slime, SBCL, Quicklisp and Git.
Portacle is a complete IDE for Common Lisp that you can take with you on a USB stick. It is multi-platform and can be run on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Since it does not require any complicated installation process, it is set up and running in no time.
At 25000 values, Common Lisp is almost 1.8 times as fast as the C version, and the compilation time is 65% of the total evaluation time. In Figure 2, for programs of depth 8, Common Lisp passes C at between 5000 and 6000 values, and the compilation time is 16.2 seconds.
To quit SBCL, type (quit) .
There are some flashier options out there, but I don't think anything's better than Emacs and SLIME. I'd stick with what you're using and just work on pimping your Emacs install.
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