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Unix CLI makes automation easy. The least you 'use' the computers for repetitive tasks, the better. If you want fun, get Scheme or Common Lisp+Emacs and start
by anthk 3y ago
Unix CLI makes automation easy. The least you 'use' the computers for repetitive tasks, the better.
If you want fun, get Scheme or Common Lisp+Emacs and start hacking something cool.
- pjmlp 3y agoA REPL and scripting languages make automation easy without having to live in a TTY emulation world.
- anthk 3y agoEven with GTK/Lucid Emacs+Geiser/SLIME is not that easy. Also, on speed... GNU's looks glacially frozen compared to slrn. Heck, GNUs runs fast if it's being bound to slrnpull's spool. GNU's on Email and IMAP it's the same. If you use mbsync+msmtp, again, the speed it's literally 1000x better. by pooling a maildir. From hours parsing a remote folder, yes, hours, to seconds. Also, compare elfeed vs sfeed. By the time elfeed renders a huge caché of news, I could write an elisp parser for the sfeed output and then display everything under Eww. Emacs without Unix tools doing the hard job would be much slower even on fast machines. Yes, I know, the new JIT against libgccjit, blah... blah... still slow.
- pjmlp 3y agoEmacs is hardly the example I would think of, it didn't got its nickname accidentally.