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> Someone writing bad ELisp doesn't say much about the quality of a package or how useful it will be. If they're writing it on Emacs, then it is. I mean, if y
by BeetleB 5y ago
> Someone writing bad ELisp doesn't say much about the quality of a package or how useful it will be.
If they're writing it on Emacs, then it is.
I mean, if you have an app running on the JVM, and the developers are poor at Java, you kind of would expect issues.
- roenxi 5y agoI doubt it. Bad code takes longer to write, understand and is less maintainable. But it is rare that those are the issues that make or break an OSS project. Typically the maintainer's goals and motivation counts for much more. And besides "good code" in ELisp is a bit of a funny one. Lexical scoping is a relative innovation.