Re: Guile outside of Emacs + Geiser

[tomas]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 03:07:10PM -0400, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote:
> There's a long thread on guix-devel which is related and touches on many
> things, but I thought I'd narrow in on this one thing.
> 
> Has anyone had a "good" experience programming with Guile without using
> Emacs?  If so, what was your development experience like?

For one exotic datapoint: I do use Emacs as an editor (almost exclusively)
but never got the hang of Geiser. So I'm happy as a clam with Guile's
REPL in a plain & simple terminal.
> 
> Furthermore, what's the right direction to making non-Emacs users have
> as nice of an experience as Emacs users do?  Racket, for instance, has
> lovely support in vscode with "Magic Racket".  What's the right path to
> recommend for the present, and what's the best path to improve the
> future?  LSP?  There are a few incomplete implementations I think but I
> haven't tried them.

Some people are heavily working on Emacs's LSP support (as I said, not
my thing), so I'd expect that giving Guile a good LSP support too might
be a viable path to support (yuck [1]) vscode.

Cheers

[1] Sorry, I just can't suppress that completely, watching as I
   do how Microsoft is converting software development into Yet
   Another Social Network (and vscode is part of this, as is
   Github or as LinkedIn tried -- and failed to be).

   I'm a political animal, sorry for that.

-- 
tomás

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