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Also recommend checking out Fennel https://fennel-lang.org/ https://fennel-lang.org/

dgb23 5y ago
Projects like these motivate me to finally start learning emacs and move on from VSCode. That would be my third attempt...
- aerique 5y ago
  Doom Emacs is worth a try. Comes with Vim bindings by default but these can be disabled. https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#doom-emacs
  - tbonesteaks 5y ago
    I recently moved to doom-emacs, and I love it. I had been piecemealing together an emacs config for a few years, and sometimes it was fun and sometimes frustrating. But, doom-emacs has so many of the things I need already, and adding a new packages is the same as adding them to regular emacs if you need something it doesn't already have.
    - aerique 5y ago
      Yeah, I had the same (also with the i3 window manager and the fish shell): it came with sane[1] defaults to allowed me to chuck out my previous big, grown-over-the-years config and start over much smaller. [1] very subjective but they were mostly similar to my tastes
- rkangel 5y ago
  If it helps - I moved from Emacs to VSCode. It's not as simple as "objectively better you just need to know how". I had invested a lot of work into my emacs config in order to get things working in a usable way. The problem is that every new thing I added needed a whole lot more work. VSCode plugins usually work pretty well out of the box - e.g. I just installed the Elm plugin and it was working immediately with errors shown inline, autocomplete etc. If I had been able to get that going well in Emacs in less than an hour or two I'd have been pleasantly surprised. VSCode also has two things that Emacs doesn't. Live workspace sharing so you can pair program remotely (it's fantastic) and the ability work on a repo that's the other end of an SSH link (yes Emacs has tramp, not it's not in the same league). The SSH stuff works amazingly seamlessly, it's been my primary development mode since the start of pandemic. One proviso I will give to my Emacs opinions is that the Language Server Protocol was only just beginning to come in when I switched away. That abstraction level is exactly what Emacs needs (particularly given the threading restrictions) and a lot of language setup might be easier and more uniform if you can take advantage of it.

Projects like these motivate me to finally start learning emacs and move on from VSCode. That would be my third attempt...

aerique 5y ago
Doom Emacs is worth a try. Comes with Vim bindings by default but these can be disabled. https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#doom-emacs
- tbonesteaks 5y ago
  I recently moved to doom-emacs, and I love it. I had been piecemealing together an emacs config for a few years, and sometimes it was fun and sometimes frustrating. But, doom-emacs has so many of the things I need already, and adding a new packages is the same as adding them to regular emacs if you need something it doesn't already have.
  - aerique 5y ago
    Yeah, I had the same (also with the i3 window manager and the fish shell): it came with sane[1] defaults to allowed me to chuck out my previous big, grown-over-the-years config and start over much smaller. [1] very subjective but they were mostly similar to my tastes
rkangel 5y ago
If it helps - I moved from Emacs to VSCode. It's not as simple as "objectively better you just need to know how". I had invested a lot of work into my emacs config in order to get things working in a usable way. The problem is that every new thing I added needed a whole lot more work. VSCode plugins usually work pretty well out of the box - e.g. I just installed the Elm plugin and it was working immediately with errors shown inline, autocomplete etc. If I had been able to get that going well in Emacs in less than an hour or two I'd have been pleasantly surprised. VSCode also has two things that Emacs doesn't. Live workspace sharing so you can pair program remotely (it's fantastic) and the ability work on a repo that's the other end of an SSH link (yes Emacs has tramp, not it's not in the same league). The SSH stuff works amazingly seamlessly, it's been my primary development mode since the start of pandemic. One proviso I will give to my Emacs opinions is that the Language Server Protocol was only just beginning to come in when I switched away. That abstraction level is exactly what Emacs needs (particularly given the threading restrictions) and a lot of language setup might be easier and more uniform if you can take advantage of it.