Interlisp/Medley is the only rich graphical LispM type environment that's open source. OpenGenera isn't and probably won't be, which is tragic, but there are many tragic things in this world.
What many of the commenters to my blog post in that link don't get is that it is not a good thing that there are commercial graphical Lisp IDEs.
For comparison: when there were multiple commercial Unix implementations, the result was increased fragmentation and slower development.
Linux, as a FOSS, PC-native Unix, has propelled Unix forwards more in the last 25Y or so than the previous 25Y of work on commercial Unix ever did.
Old Lisp hands tell people to learn Emacs and install SLIME or something. Well, Emacs is about as appealing as other kinds of slime, like slug mucus, are: to most younger types, it's repellent and disgusting.
Emacs is a horrible crusty old 1970s editor.
To make Lisp look appealing and interesting, then it needs a rich modern GUI, a rich set of libraries to call upon and ways to access others. It needs a fancy graphical editor to show off its power.
The world has a FOSS Common Lisp: it's SBCL.
Find some way to run Medley under SBCL, however ugly the hack. Linux was an ugly hack once. UNIX itself was an ugly hack once. There's nothing wrong with ugly hacks. They are to be encouraged. They are the keystone of FOSS.
Get Medley running under SBCL somehow so there's a 1980s graphical FOSS Lisp environment, not a 1970s text-based one.
I proposed an idea about it a year ago that got some traction here on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366292
Interlisp/Medley is the only rich graphical LispM type environment that's open source. OpenGenera isn't and probably won't be, which is tragic, but there are many tragic things in this world.
What many of the commenters to my blog post in that link don't get is that it is not a good thing that there are commercial graphical Lisp IDEs.
For comparison: when there were multiple commercial Unix implementations, the result was increased fragmentation and slower development.
Linux, as a FOSS, PC-native Unix, has propelled Unix forwards more in the last 25Y or so than the previous 25Y of work on commercial Unix ever did.
Old Lisp hands tell people to learn Emacs and install SLIME or something. Well, Emacs is about as appealing as other kinds of slime, like slug mucus, are: to most younger types, it's repellent and disgusting.
Emacs is a horrible crusty old 1970s editor.
To make Lisp look appealing and interesting, then it needs a rich modern GUI, a rich set of libraries to call upon and ways to access others. It needs a fancy graphical editor to show off its power.
The world has a FOSS Common Lisp: it's SBCL.
Find some way to run Medley under SBCL, however ugly the hack. Linux was an ugly hack once. UNIX itself was an ugly hack once. There's nothing wrong with ugly hacks. They are to be encouraged. They are the keystone of FOSS.
Get Medley running under SBCL somehow so there's a 1980s graphical FOSS Lisp environment, not a 1970s text-based one.