SLIME

For other uses, see Slime.

SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, is an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications. SLIME originates in an Emacs mode called SLIM written by Eric Marsden. It is developed as an open-source public domain software^[2] project by Luke Gorrie and Helmut Eller. Over 100 Lisp developers have contributed code to SLIME since the project was started in 2003. SLIME uses a backend called Swank that is loaded into Common Lisp.

SLIME

Original author(s)	Eric Marsden
Developer(s)	Luke Gorrie and Helmut Eller
Initial release	mid-2003
Stable release	2.31[1]  / 2 December 2024; 5 months ago (2 December 2024)
Repository	github.com/slime/slime.git
Operating system	Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Available in	Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp
Type	Source code editor
License	Public domain software,[2] portions in GPL v2, LGPL, BSD
Website	common-lisp.net/project/slime/

SLIME works with the following Common Lisp implementations:

• CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL)
• Scieneer Common Lisp
• Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
• Clozure CL (former OpenMCL)
• LispWorks
• Allegro Common Lisp
• CLISP
• Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL)
• Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL)

Some implementations of other programming languages are using SLIME:

• Clojure
• JavaScript^[3]
• Kawa, a Scheme implementation
• GNU R^[4]
• Ruby^[5]
• MIT Scheme
• Scheme48

There are also clones of PERSON

• SOLID for OCaml