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Why is Emacs lisp absurd ? It’s an editor that is widely popular .

• alimov 4y ago
  Maybe “unexpected” would be a good substitute for absurd.
  • donio 4y ago
    It's not even that. There are several k8s packages on MELPA and they are meant for real use rather than a blog joke.
• gunfighthacksaw 4y ago
  Dynamic scoping. Not saying it’s without utility, but to the mainstream: pants on head bonkers.
  • donio 4y ago
    Emacs has supported lexical binding for almost a decade now and all the elisp files in Emacs itself use it. Most modern packages do too.
  • kazinator 4y ago
    Bash "local" variables (advanced feature not even in the POSIX shell standard) are dynamically scoped. Head on bonkers boots embedded systems and servers, coordinates builds, ...
• donio 4y ago
  And JSON support in Emacs is not some obscure feature these days, it's heavily relied on by many popular packages.
• kazinator 4y ago
  Moreover, the specific example looks great.