I moved to straight.el several years ago when I was working on making my Emacs config more repeatable. It’s been simply the best tool for Emacs dependency manag

I moved to straight.el several years ago when I was working on making my Emacs config more repeatable. It’s been simply the best tool for Emacs dependency management. Several packages that I now drive daily I found before they were on MELPA/ELPA; with straight, it was trivial to configure it to clone and install them just with a URL to clone. I’ve also had many bleeding edge updates break stuff for me; I just cd’d into the corresponding elisp directory, git checkout’d the version I wanted, then let straight rebuild the byte compiled files for me automatically on next launch. So. Nice.