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Emacs is awesome because it nicely handles every programming language I use.

There was no mention in the article of the LispWorks editor, that was derived from Hemlock. A really nice editor to use when I need the features of the LispWorks IDE, otherwise my favorite is just Emacs configured for LispWorks and SBCL.

For the discussion topic: I am not sure if the LispWorks editor is faster, snappier, etc. than Emacs because it is compiled Common Lisp.

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CLIKI is about free and open source software.

From the homepage: "CLiki contains resources for learning about and using the programming language Common Lisp, and information about DFSG-compliant free software implemented in Common Lisp."

LispWorks is proprietary commercial software and thus out-of-scope for CLIKI.

Btw., that's a reason I don't contribute to CLIKI, as I'm not interested in only "DFSG-compliant free software implemented in Common Lisp".

The performance sensitive parts of Emacs are written in C, which would explain why you don’t see a huge difference between Emacs and LW imo

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