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> Other devs would (and regularly do) just whip up something using shell scripts and command line tools, or write their own CLI/TUI/GUI/web service/app for the
by ParetoOptimal 4y ago
> Other devs would (and regularly do) just whip up something using shell scripts and command line tools, or write their own CLI/TUI/GUI/web service/app for the exact same thing.
The difference is time of development and flexibility of tge emacs result using the same universal plain text interface you use in emacs every day for me.
- oblio 4y agoTrue, but you're giving up composability outside of Emacs. Think of CI/CD pipelines, for example. I mean, you could probably run Emacs as part of your CI/CD pipeline, but it would be a bit... weird?