I just wish a good IDE existed so I don't have to use Emacs. That's what made me drop lisp in the past.

I would be happy with (neo)Vim setup as well, but that was way behind Emacs and broken when I tried.

LispWorks - https://www.lispworks.com/

Thanks.

However, price for hobby user license at 750 USD is laughable.

as of now neovim works great with clojure, not sure about other lisps. vs code also.

I am/was mainly interested in Common Lisp. I might give Vim another try, that would be the best if it worked. I really don't like vscode

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.