[aidenn0]

SLIME has a successor now called Sly, but yes that's still state of the art for Lisp programming.

No, you don't have to learn emacs to get started with Lisp though. You'll just have an inferior experience.

As a side note, if you do start to learn without emacs, please use something like this[1] for formatting your code. Most editors lack a Lisp indentation plugin, and any time you ask a question online, whomever answers it will have to reformat otherwise.

1: https://github.com/ds26gte/scmindent (it's even in npm)

[lokedhs]

I don't think it's fair to call it a successor since it intentionally doesn't implement all the features of Slime.

I'm specifically talking about presentations which were removed because the author of Sly never uses them. For the first people who do, however, Sly can never be a successor to Slime.

It may be an alternative, and a pretty good one, but not enough a successor.

[aidenn0]

I didn't realize it lacks presentations, as I'm still using slime. That's good to know.

[ksaj]

> You'll just have an inferior experience.

I detect an emacs joke here.