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This is a cool project that I have tried a few times in the past. To me, the big draw is that it is written in Common Lisp. I was a patron contributor for a whi

This is a cool project that I have tried a few times in the past. To me, the big draw is that it is written in Common Lisp. I was a patron contributor for a while, but when I had problems building from source, I stopped. Interfacing Common Lisp to things like WebKit, GTK, or Qt to build Nyxt was probably the reason I failed building from source, IIRC. This is probably a bad analogy, but forty years ago Lisp Machine subsumed the operating system. In modern times, in some sense the web browser is like an operating system layer, or at least a portable application platform. So, my bad analogy is that Nyxt is like a Lisp Machine. If I have time, I will try to build from source today. I just reread the dev source install instructions, and it does look straight forward. Hopefully being on a M1 MacBook won’t affect the build process.

jmercouris 5y ago
Thanks Mark, I really appreciate that. We’re working on a Nix recipe to make it easier on MacOS, making some progress https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233
cle 5y ago
This is the vision from my understanding. I think of it as Emacs for the web, instead of just text. Super compelling vision, I really hope they can pull it off. I’ve tried Nyxt a few times but I find it quite difficult to hack on, at the time it required an elaborate Emacs + SLIME + Common Lisp setup…I don’t use CL very much so it was a lot of work and quite fragile. I hope they can get editing bootstrapped into Nyxt so that I can modify it in Nyxt itself instead of a bunch of complicated external tooling. As it stands, there’s too much friction for me to hack on it. Regardless, tons of promise and I’m eagerly following its development!
- vindarel 5y ago
  It seems they did it! > New simple built-in editor capabilities so that you can easily script Nyxt without opening up an external editor. (last screenshot)
  - cle 5y ago
    Wow nice! Thanks.
    - vindarel 5y ago
      BTW, Emacs is not the only CL editor anymore. Besides Vim, Atom with SLIMA is getting very close to Slime. There are a couple extensions for VSCode, and more: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#text-editor-resources https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#text-editor-resou... Happy lisping :)
ngai_aku 5y ago
Any luck building from source? I just gave it a shot, but I stumbled on the same issues you mentioned (webkit, gtk, qt).

jmercouris 5y ago

Thanks Mark, I really appreciate that. We’re working on a Nix recipe to make it easier on MacOS, making some progress https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233

cle 5y ago

This is the vision from my understanding. I think of it as Emacs for the web, instead of just text. Super compelling vision, I really hope they can pull it off. I’ve tried Nyxt a few times but I find it quite difficult to hack on, at the time it required an elaborate Emacs + SLIME + Common Lisp setup…I don’t use CL very much so it was a lot of work and quite fragile. I hope they can get editing bootstrapped into Nyxt so that I can modify it in Nyxt itself instead of a bunch of complicated external tooling. As it stands, there’s too much friction for me to hack on it. Regardless, tons of promise and I’m eagerly following its development!

vindarel 5y ago
It seems they did it! > New simple built-in editor capabilities so that you can easily script Nyxt without opening up an external editor. (last screenshot)
- cle 5y ago
  Wow nice! Thanks.
  - vindarel 5y ago
    BTW, Emacs is not the only CL editor anymore. Besides Vim, Atom with SLIMA is getting very close to Slime. There are a couple extensions for VSCode, and more: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#text-editor-resources https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#text-editor-resou... Happy lisping :)

ngai_aku 5y ago

Any luck building from source? I just gave it a shot, but I stumbled on the same issues you mentioned (webkit, gtk, qt).