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20:15:26
_death
jmercouris: if you're referring to my paste, I didn't intend it as a solution to your issue
22:24:44
dbotton_
is there a squeak/pharo like x-platfrom graphical environment available for common lisp? in some ways portacle/emas (sans graphics) fills that niche but even so
22:25:43
phoe
everything else that is somewhat usable that I am aware of depends on foreign libraries, like qtools/commonqt which is what I use
22:32:32
aeth
dbotton_: X is designed to permit a client-server separation and there's an X client in pure CL called CLX so McCLIM using the CLX backend on Linux or similar Unix systems can offer a pure CL experience with no foreign libraries.
22:33:55
aeth
Everything else will require CFFI, although it can still be effectively "zero dependency" if it directly calls the exposed OS APIs.
22:44:36
aeth
dbotton_: the problem is that any editor/IDE has to compete with the flawed, but good-enough Emacs in order to get users, so no project has really gotten any momentum
22:51:09
dbotton_
but what though I am thinking about creating is something more like squeak or pharo
23:09:00
Gnuxie[m]
Tbh though, if someone put enough time to it, it is totally possible to beat Emacs+SLIME, it's relatively straight forward what would need to be done
23:23:31
Gnuxie[m]
I meant that it is clear what you would have to do, not that it was gonna be easy
2:22:53
aeth
Gnuxie[m]: I think the issue is one of time. Generally the way to get enough time to do it is to get paid to do a job in a related thing and there just aren't enough CL jobs yet.