I'm wondering how well other languages are supported by multiple IDEs.
If you want to develop for iOS and OS X, it's hard to avoid XCode and Interface Builder.
Isn't Windows development largely dominated by Visual Studio? (I could be completely wrong about this, as I haven't done any Windows development outside of Visual Basic many years ago.)
It seems that various dialects of Smalltalk are strongly tied to their own IDEs, by design.
I believe that Python, Ruby, and Perl still subscribe to the "pick your favorite text editor with syntax bindings for the language" development philosophy.
For Lisp, the problem is that Emacs + SLIME is such an outstanding development environment already, that it forecloses the "itch scratching" motivation of experienced Lisp developers to write something else. They sometimes give it a shot to welcome new Lispers, but their heart is not in it the way it would be if they needed it for themselves.
(And of course, this ignores the paid IDEs, which are also very good.)
I think there was a project to do that - and smooth out another few emacs quirks. I don't know how much it's being maintained though, but it was built by Xah Lee (afaik).
If you want to develop for iOS and OS X, it's hard to avoid XCode and Interface Builder.
Isn't Windows development largely dominated by Visual Studio? (I could be completely wrong about this, as I haven't done any Windows development outside of Visual Basic many years ago.)
It seems that various dialects of Smalltalk are strongly tied to their own IDEs, by design.
I believe that Python, Ruby, and Perl still subscribe to the "pick your favorite text editor with syntax bindings for the language" development philosophy.
For Lisp, the problem is that Emacs + SLIME is such an outstanding development environment already, that it forecloses the "itch scratching" motivation of experienced Lisp developers to write something else. They sometimes give it a shot to welcome new Lispers, but their heart is not in it the way it would be if they needed it for themselves.
(And of course, this ignores the paid IDEs, which are also very good.)