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by zeveb 3061 days ago
Interactive Lisp development with Emacs has been around longer than that. The first commit for SLIME, which is a (third-generation, I think) Lisp development environment for emacs, is from September 2003: https://github.com/slime/slime/commit/2fb4c4e53b59ed7b6e5f55... (and the comment implies that there was development before then).

Visual Studio has been around since 1997 (which is pretty cool!). Emacs has been around since 1976, although I don't know how far back it got a decent Lisp development environment. Early 80s, maybe?

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Interactive REPL in Lisp: early 60s.

Interlisp development environment: early 70s.

Interlisp-D: Early 80s.

MIT Lisp Machine + Zmacs: end 70s.

Macintosh Common Lisp, LispWorks, Allegro CL, and many others ...: mid-end 80s.

GNU Emacs based Lisp development: end 80s.