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A Lisp REPL is a user interface, not an implementation. The first Emacs wasn't using Lisp at all. Wasn't it literally the Emacs? > It's rather a Lisp REPL tha

by lispm 2y ago

A Lisp REPL is a user interface, not an implementation. The first Emacs wasn't using Lisp at all. Wasn't it literally the Emacs? > It's rather a Lisp REPL that has a text-editor built on top of it. Just write an Emacs without a Lisp REPL. It can have the same Dired, just written in Python. There is nothing in Dired, which requires Lisp.

iLemming 2y ago
Dired is a file browser, sure, it can be written in anything. But what about something like Org-mode - with all its source-block magic, code execution, etc. etc.?
- lispm 2y ago
  Why wouldn't one be able to implement this in JavaScript, Python, Smalltalk or even BASIC ?