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As long as most Lisps and Schemes rely so heavily on Emacs as part of their tooling, it will never reclaim its status from its heydays. Emacs is just too clunky

As long as most Lisps and Schemes rely so heavily on Emacs as part of their tooling, it will never reclaim its status from its heydays. Emacs is just too clunky in 2024. Just IMHO of course. Also Common Lisp, while a great lang with fantastic implementations such as SBCL, really do need a better or standard packet manager, Quicklisp is a great effort but still in beta, and saying "well it is technically still beta, but basically ready or good for use" is simply not cutting it. Quicklisp also still, as far as I know, does not do https and the communities opinion on that seems rather "oh well" on it. I guess where I'm going at is that Lisp's tooling has some serious limitations or gaps compared to most modern languages.

vindarel 2y ago
> Emacs For plugins for Vim, Atom/Pulsar, VSCode, Jetbrains, Sublime, Jupyter notebooks and more see https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... they have very good to good and improving support. > Quicklisp see https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https a new package manager: https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl and also https://www.clpm.dev https://www.clpm.dev or Nix, Guix.
iLemming 2y ago
> Emacs is just too clunky in 2024 Believe me, you couldn't be more mistaken. Modern Emacs offers virtually unlimited ways to provide a smooth, graceful experience for so many tasks, sometimes in completely unexpected areas. I just watched someone show me a way to integrate YouTube. It allows you to subscribe to channels and playlists, automatically fetch new videos, and watch them directly within Emacs. One feature that blew my mind is the ability to follow video transcriptions alongside the video, karaoke-style, providing an enhanced, distraction-free experience in a more interactive and engaging manner. You can not only search through the content of videos but also jump to any point. I have never seen a better way of consuming useful information from videos.
- mustermannBB 2y ago
  That's why I said IMHO. I tried Emacs in 2023 and 2024 and to me it is still way too clunky, gets in my way all the time and has , what I consider, bad defaults and to me very bad ergonomics. It literally negatively impacts my hands. And performance was nothing special either for me. It is however very powerful, I agree with that.
  - iLemming 2y ago
    I don't know what to tell you. I myself never got into Emacs on the first try. It took me about two years of constant debate and deliberation. At that time, I was using IntelliJ and had been for seven years. I knew it extremely well and was very happy with it. Yet, seeing what’s possible with Emacs continuously fueled my curiosity. I was annoyed by my own inability to finally understand what makes it so great. Little by little, I started finding features and packages that were awesome, but I still kept stumbling on other roadblocks that ruined the whole experience. At some point, instead of blindly copy-pasting Elisp snippets, I tried to dissect and understand them and had a few aha moments. Finally, one day, I decided that instead of reaching for the tools I knew well already, for every problem at hand, I would try to figure out how to get it done with Emacs. It was very slow at first, but after a couple of weeks, I felt more productive than I ever was with other tools. A few months later, I received a notification about having to extend my IntelliJ license, and I realized that I didn’t need it anymore. Emacs is extremely empowering, although it comes at a cost, even though technically it is free. For some people, including myself, that time is the best lifetime investment. I have never regretted the time and effort I spent learning it. Even with the plethora of features that constantly get added to VSCode, I have zero FOMO. I do occasionally fire it up just to make sure I don't get stuck in my bubble. Once you understand how advising functions work in Emacs and realize that you can redefine any behavior of any function, whether third-party or built-in, it gives you incredible authority over absolutely any textual data you have to deal with on your computer. Check this out: I can perform a search that looks for things on Google, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, my browser history, and other sources (this is customizable). Then, I can select any given url and send it to an LLM to extract a summary. After that, I can create a note with a deadline and schedule to review it at a specific date and time, or add this stuff to my Anki cards collection. All that without ever leaving Emacs, and with just a few keystrokes. If you ever feel curious about it again, maybe try Doom Emacs. Who knows? Maybe this time, it will be different.

vindarel 2y ago

> Emacs For plugins for Vim, Atom/Pulsar, VSCode, Jetbrains, Sublime, Jupyter notebooks and more see https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.html https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... they have very good to good and improving support. > Quicklisp see https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https a new package manager: https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl and also https://www.clpm.dev https://www.clpm.dev or Nix, Guix.

iLemming 2y ago

> Emacs is just too clunky in 2024 Believe me, you couldn't be more mistaken. Modern Emacs offers virtually unlimited ways to provide a smooth, graceful experience for so many tasks, sometimes in completely unexpected areas. I just watched someone show me a way to integrate YouTube. It allows you to subscribe to channels and playlists, automatically fetch new videos, and watch them directly within Emacs. One feature that blew my mind is the ability to follow video transcriptions alongside the video, karaoke-style, providing an enhanced, distraction-free experience in a more interactive and engaging manner. You can not only search through the content of videos but also jump to any point. I have never seen a better way of consuming useful information from videos.

mustermannBB 2y ago
That's why I said IMHO. I tried Emacs in 2023 and 2024 and to me it is still way too clunky, gets in my way all the time and has , what I consider, bad defaults and to me very bad ergonomics. It literally negatively impacts my hands. And performance was nothing special either for me. It is however very powerful, I agree with that.
- iLemming 2y ago
  I don't know what to tell you. I myself never got into Emacs on the first try. It took me about two years of constant debate and deliberation. At that time, I was using IntelliJ and had been for seven years. I knew it extremely well and was very happy with it. Yet, seeing what’s possible with Emacs continuously fueled my curiosity. I was annoyed by my own inability to finally understand what makes it so great. Little by little, I started finding features and packages that were awesome, but I still kept stumbling on other roadblocks that ruined the whole experience. At some point, instead of blindly copy-pasting Elisp snippets, I tried to dissect and understand them and had a few aha moments. Finally, one day, I decided that instead of reaching for the tools I knew well already, for every problem at hand, I would try to figure out how to get it done with Emacs. It was very slow at first, but after a couple of weeks, I felt more productive than I ever was with other tools. A few months later, I received a notification about having to extend my IntelliJ license, and I realized that I didn’t need it anymore. Emacs is extremely empowering, although it comes at a cost, even though technically it is free. For some people, including myself, that time is the best lifetime investment. I have never regretted the time and effort I spent learning it. Even with the plethora of features that constantly get added to VSCode, I have zero FOMO. I do occasionally fire it up just to make sure I don't get stuck in my bubble. Once you understand how advising functions work in Emacs and realize that you can redefine any behavior of any function, whether third-party or built-in, it gives you incredible authority over absolutely any textual data you have to deal with on your computer. Check this out: I can perform a search that looks for things on Google, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, my browser history, and other sources (this is customizable). Then, I can select any given url and send it to an LLM to extract a summary. After that, I can create a note with a deadline and schedule to review it at a specific date and time, or add this stuff to my Anki cards collection. All that without ever leaving Emacs, and with just a few keystrokes. If you ever feel curious about it again, maybe try Doom Emacs. Who knows? Maybe this time, it will be different.