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Since you mentioned Light Table, I'm going to guess that you're open to other lisps. I think this is one thing that the Racket folks get right. My wife's first foray into programming was a coursera course starting with a simplified variant of Racket, and the dev environment could not have been less of an issue.

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.

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Yes, but racket is a terrible language to work with. I've mentioned for years that drracket needs a general sexpr mode and integrated terminal for something like geiser. They don't listen.

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.

> racket is a terrible language to work with.

> ...

> 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.

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