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joaotavora/sly

Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/joaotavora/sly · Common Lisp observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 95
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4559
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 32
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1431 stars · 157 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SLY is a Common Lisp IDE for Emacs, a fork of SLIME with improved UX. It provides a full-featured REPL, live code annotations (stickers), flex completion, a trace dialog, inspectors, and debuggers.

Use cases

  • develop Common Lisp in Emacs
  • get a better REPL for Common Lisp
  • annotate code to record values as it runs
  • trace function calls interactively in Lisp
  • migrate from SLIME to a more modern Lisp IDE
  • inspect and debug Common Lisp code interactively

When to choose

  • you write Common Lisp and use Emacs as your editor
  • you want SLIME features with improved UX like stickers and backreferences
  • you need multiple REPLs and inspectors simultaneously

When to avoid

  • you use another Lisp dialect like Scheme or Clojure
  • you prefer a standalone IDE like LispWorks or a VS Code setup
  • you don't use Emacs

Facets

plugin · maturity active

editor developer-tools programming-languages developer-tools text-editors editor-plugin cross-platform common-lisp ide slime-fork repl emacs-lisp emacs

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
joaotavora/slymain66

For agents

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