You can use Common Lisp with VSCode pretty easily now with the Alive plugin. It uses SWANK under the hood, but you don't NEED emacs anymore for Common Lisp. Y

You can use Common Lisp with VSCode pretty easily now with the Alive plugin. It uses SWANK under the hood, but you don't NEED emacs anymore for Common Lisp. You can also use Calva with Clojure and vscode. The emacs requirement is slowly going away. You get all the perks of hacking live running systems, no emacs required.