Mine IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

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The 12 most detailed of 14 comments. Each links to the original.

1. I have "mine" their text editor, now I just need some tutorials and sample projects to go with it.

   Mixed · May 2026 · in “Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml”

2. I like that mine solves those for a newcomer, especially on Windows.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

3. Very cool project and welcome edition to the CL community!

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

4. trying to be a friendlier gateway into trying Common Lisp

   Mixed · May 2026 · in “Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET”

5. looks like a welcome alternative

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

6. It's really cool to see projects support legacy concepts and ideas though.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

7. we had new excellent editors and tools being released in the last months

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp”

8. It's a fun project and neat. I support these types of projects.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

9. Mine is really fast and responsive compared to other Lisp IDEs

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

10. Seeing something like this is a step in the right direction.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”

11. There is a very nice IDE called Mine

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp”

12. that's a weird goal for a CL IDE

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp”