Ask HN: What would it take for you to revisit Lisp again?

2 points by fud101 3y ago ↗ HN

For me it would be getting it working in vscode as a first class citizen (ie equivalent to slime or cider or what have you). But going back to emacs except for a glorified notepad is a nope never proposition.

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sargstuff 3y ago ↗

> For me it would be getting it working in vscode as a first class citizen ...

Does using lisp macros to fool vscode into thinking the lisp code is a non-lisp language supported by vscode count as a solution?

louis771 3y ago ↗

Have you tried the Alive plugin?

There is also now a very good Common Lisp plugin for Jetbrains IntelliJ which was just released a few days ago.

On the other side, as a developer, you should not be dependent on a single web-based editor to use a specific language. There are many great programming languages out there that run best _outside_ VSCode and I'm glad they still exist.

If you overlook the power of Lisp (and all the effort that is going on in Common Lisp, Racket, Scheme communities etc.) than this is really your loss.