{"slug": "mine", "name": "Mine", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 7, "warners": 0, "score": 3.598, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-04-24", "latest": "2026-07-18", "why": "For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 2, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/coalton-lang/coalton", "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mine", "mine"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 783294048, "item_id": 48955878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955878", "by": "cyrc", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There is a very nice IDE called Mine", "excerpt": "For those who are interested in common lisp There is a very nice IDE called Mine https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/", "context": "", "use_case": "Common Lisp IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"}, {"id": 766479761, "item_id": 47904985, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904985", "by": "armitron", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative", "excerpt": "If you're a power user, the sooner you learn Emacs the better as the synergies with any Lisp language (particularly Common Lisp) are simply too strong to be ignored and there is no contemporary alternative that rivals it. For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative to messy things like Lem that never really worked very well for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "Common Lisp IDE for new users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"}, {"id": 766389168, "item_id": 47899323, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899323", "by": "yenko", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Woah this is awesome.", "excerpt": "from https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ > mine is different in that it\u2019s supposed to be as easy as the QBASIC or the Borland Turbo products of yore, but for Coalton and Common Lisp Woah this is awesome. I'm too young to have used them but I'm fascinated with the idea Borland Turbo Pascal, QuickBasic. Glad there is a lisp option now ;)", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE for Coalton", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["common lisp ide", "coalton / common lisp ide", "coalton and common lisp development", "common lisp ide for new users", "ide for coalton"], "compared": [{"slug": "gnu-emacs", "name": "GNU Emacs", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 783208976, "item_id": 48950561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950561", "by": "dieggsy", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "mine is a new IDE that's part of the Coalton project", "excerpt": "mine is a new IDE that's part of the Coalton project, but is meant to be used for Common Lisp as well: https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/ I have not tried it, I'm an Emacs nerd.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"}, {"id": 781712976, "item_id": 48857061, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857061", "by": "vindarel", "date": "2026-07-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mine: a complete, single-download application", "excerpt": "Don't miss out, we had new excellent editors and tools being released in the last months: Mine: a complete, single-download application that comes with everything needed to experience the interactive and incremental development programming workflow, including hot-reloading and on-the-fly debugging. For CL and Coalton. https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ OLIVE: a new hand-made plugin for VSCode. ICL: a new R", "context": "", "use_case": "Common Lisp IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903173", "title": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947455", "title": "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845209", "title": "A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964957", "title": "Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894014", "title": "Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-05": {"compare": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 783294048, "item_id": 48955878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955878", "by": "cyrc", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There is a very nice IDE called Mine", "excerpt": "For those who are interested in common lisp There is a very nice IDE called Mine https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/", "context": "", "use_case": "Common Lisp IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"}, {"id": 767869968, "item_id": 47991873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991873", "by": "Jach", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "that's trying to be a friendlier gateway into trying Common Lisp (and/or Coalton) than emacs", "excerpt": "This project? https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare If Dotcl does have good performance, it would be interesting to try running Coalton on top of it too. Coalton syntax is probably not unusual if you are familiar with OCaml and F#: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton (Though I'd expect the performance of the typical use case of running on top of SBCL to still be better.) From the same project there's the recently r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET"}, {"id": 766488465, "item_id": 47905529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905529", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I will give Mine a try when get a free hour", "excerpt": "I live in Emacs, but I will give Mine a try when get a free hour. I read about Coalton in X and follow the author but I haven't invested time yet to try out.", "context": "", "use_case": "Coalton / Common Lisp IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"}, {"id": 766482032, "item_id": 47905127, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905127", "by": "mepian", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "compare", "quote": "mine is not Emacs. It aims to eliminate all of that", "excerpt": "There is an explanation in the blog: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ > However, the above is a tall order for someone just wanting to dip their toes in, to see if they have any interest in Coalton or Common Lisp. A couple hours on the weekend is easily sunk into getting configurations right, and the right subsystems installed, and the right paths setup, just so the first line of code can be executed. > ", "context": "", "use_case": "Coalton and Common Lisp development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"}, {"id": 766479761, "item_id": 47904985, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904985", "by": "armitron", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative", "excerpt": "If you're a power user, the sooner you learn Emacs the better as the synergies with any Lisp language (particularly Common Lisp) are simply too strong to be ignored and there is no contemporary alternative that rivals it. For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative to messy things like Lem that never really worked very well for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "Common Lisp IDE for new users", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"}, {"id": 766471664, "item_id": 47904479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904479", "by": "sctb", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Interesting! Looks like the IDE itself is written in Coalton", "excerpt": "Interesting! Looks like the IDE itself is written in Coalton (https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/tree/main/mine) and you can either bring your own terminal or use the standalone version which uses Tauri and Xterm.js.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"}, {"id": 766389168, "item_id": 47899323, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899323", "by": "yenko", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Woah this is awesome.", "excerpt": "from https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ > mine is different in that it\u2019s supposed to be as easy as the QBASIC or the Borland Turbo products of yore, but for Coalton and Common Lisp Woah this is awesome. I'm too young to have used them but I'm fascinated with the idea Borland Turbo Pascal, QuickBasic. Glad there is a lisp option now ;)", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE for Coalton", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE"}]}