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"Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976..." It didn't end in 1976, though.. it's creation continues to this day. magit and org-mode are a couple of other k
by pmoriarty 4y ago
"Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976..."
It didn't end in 1976, though.. it's creation continues to this day.
magit and org-mode are a couple of other killer apps written in lisp.
- jhbadger 4y agoAlso, the Emacs that we know and use today (GNU Emacs) which is actually based on Lisp, started from a decade later (1985). The 1976 Emacs was written as a series of macros for the TECO editor (hence the name Emacs for editor macros).
- simplotek 4y ago> It didn't end in 1976, though.. it's creation continues to this day. Legacy projects tend to reflect the state of the art of the time they started, which reflects on aspects such as software architecture, technologies, and more importantly the overall technical commitment and technical debt which makes it hard or practically impossible to fix past wrongs or replace subpar technologies with better options. Emacs started out in a time when Lisp was the only game in town in terms of dynamic interpreted languages. That's perfectly fine. Would the same people stick with Lisp in a time when, say, the likes of Python and JavaScript and Node.js and Ruby and .NET exist?