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> Convincing people that they could & should use Lisp instead of Python or Swift is facing stumbling blocks far, far larger than the user-experience in an editor/IDE.

It is a perennial complaint among those learning lisp that they didn't want to have to learn a new editor too. It's certainly possible that lots of other hurdles keep people from ever getting far enough to complain, but given that growth begets growth, fixing any hurdle would potentially have outsized gains.



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