Emacs needs to die for lisp to flourish in a more modern editor.
Light Table was a good start, but we need some power behind similar projects.
I always thought guilemacs was the obvious successor, but it still hasn't happened.
EDIT: Also, emacs doesn't have to die. I love emacs! But DrRacket is a nice alternative for beginners (and I'm told) advanced users alike.
I am working on a general purpose solution, but I'm just one person. And I don't leverage public dollars to write bad tools from the safety of university, so that slows it down a bit.
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> I don't leverage public dollars to write bad tools
That's, like, your opinion, man!
Further, if your habit is to make feature requests in combination with this kind of subjective disparagement, I can see why the Racket community didn't jump to implement your request.
Lighten up. Everyone here is on the same team.
It would be nice to have alternatives, of course, but there is a reason certain people like emacs. (To be fair, I was an emacs user before I came across Lisp, but I can imagine how annoying/intimidating/frustrating it can be to somebody who has never used emacs before.)
Because EVERY editor should definitely include the bloat of a web browser.