Re: Question: LispWorks IDE with different CL engine?
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
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Yes, it did once run in another implementation which Harlequin (as was) owned. I'm sure it could be ported to another implementation given time and the knowledge of the implementation and details of the IDE. Which, well, Martin could tell us how likely that is. On 2 Feb 2026, at 15:22, joswig (as joswig at lisp dot de) <[email protected]> wrote: see here: Common LispWorks User Guide, Liquid Common Lisp Version 5.0 lispworks.com <favicon.ico> Am 02.02.2026 um 14:36 schrieb Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org) <[email protected]>: I would be amazed if the IDE works with a non-LW implementation: things like breakpoints &c will depend on fine details of the implementation. What I do is to write all my code in the LW IDE and then test in other implementations, and (in cases where I care a lot about cases where SBCL is a good deal faster than LW) run it in SBCL. This obviously won't work if you're using implementation-specific features: I either don't do that, or hide them behind shims or conditionalisation (say, for specifying how to make hashtables weak &c). This works pretty well for me. --tim On 2 Feb 2026, at 12:35, Uģis Lācis (as ugis dot lacis at equa dot se) <[email protected]> wrote: Dear LispWorks community, I am trying to work on our LISP codebase in parallel with LispWorks and SBCL. However, I am a bit slowed down by the fact that debugging in SBCL is not very accessible, i.e., SLIME has a bit steep learning curve (to make a traditional Windows user feel good with Emacs workflow) and VSCode Alive extension is somewhat limited. Therefore, I have tried to figure out if I could use LispWorks IDE/debugger with SBCL backend. By looking through documentation, I have found that SLIME is supported with LispWorks, but I have found no references to process other way around, so I presume the answer would be – no. But in order to be sure I have not missed anything; I wanted to post the question in the mailing list as well. Am I correct that this is not possible? Best, Ugis