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Ah, but Javascript is a profoundly terrible language to do anything in, while Lisp is a joy to write in. Being a Lisp machine is core to the value of Emacs. E
by eadmund 5y ago
Ah, but Javascript is a profoundly terrible language to do anything in, while Lisp is a joy to write in.
Being a Lisp machine is core to the value of Emacs. Emacs-without-Lisp is just another editor.
- spiderice 5y ago> Javascript is a profoundly terrible language to do anything in Makes it really hard to take anything you say seriously when you reveal just how ok with extreme hyperbole you are
- Zababa 5y agoWhat do you find profoundly terrible about JavaScript?
- Steltek 5y agoeLisp? Where lexical scoping is this brand new feature that generates compiler warnings? Where the UI thread is the same as your eLisp thread? Where multiprocessing is a super clunky fork-exec with a weird side buffer? Where a simple regular expression works differently between what the user invokes and how you'd write it in a function? Yeah, it's a super joy to write.
- edgyquant 5y agoI disagree, I like JavaScript
- foldr 5y agoElisp arguably has worse warts than Javascript. For example, non of Javascript's legacy 'var' scoping nonsense compares to elisp's archaic model of using dynamic scope for everything by default. On top of that, modern Javascript implementations are of extremely high quality, whereas Elisp is stuck with an interpreter of mediocre performance.