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> Not everyone likes lisp, not everyone is willing to learn a new strange language for unknown benefits. Im curious why someone would use emacs if they dislike
by medo-bear 3y ago
> Not everyone likes lisp, not everyone is willing to learn a new strange language for unknown benefits.
Im curious why someone would use emacs if they dislike lisp. To me its like writing SPAs without js
- PurpleRamen 3y agoHumans are not binary. "Not liking" does not mean dislike. And Emacs is more than just lisp.
- miroljub 3y ago> Im curious why someone would use emacs if they dislike lisp. To me its like writing SPAs without js Why use Windows (or MacOS, or Linux) if you don't like C?
- medo-bear 3y agoNone of those are meant to be customizable with C in the way Emacs is with elisp
- trealira 3y agoIt's more like "why use Linux if you dislike using the shell?" or maybe "why use XMonad if you dislike Haskell?" Which aren't unreasonable questions; there are a lot of people who use XMonad despite not caring about Haskell, just because they enjoy using it.
- brlewis 3y agoI'd prefer to write extensions to my IDE using TypeScript rather than elisp, but my attempt in 2018 or so to move from emacs to vscode failed, despite there being extensions that made keymappings largely compatible. Emacs has a much more focused UI than vscode. It's not obvious to me how to make all the extraneous things I'm not editing disappear. The emacs-compatible extensions as far as I've seen still haven't been able to make switching files in vscode as fast and convenient as switching in emacs. I spend more time maintaining software than writing new code in a single file, so this is a noticeable slowdown. VSCode doesn't feel as fast. I never fully investigated all the reasons. But I might make another attempt to move to it after it has a few more years to improve.