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> what makes emacs so uniquely capable Emacs is easily programmable (and in lisp), more unixy than modern Linux, like a whole operating system. Lispers make to
by veqq 2y ago
> what makes emacs so uniquely capable
Emacs is easily programmable (and in lisp), more unixy than modern Linux, like a whole operating system. Lispers make tools for it because it's very easy for them. Lisp tools have been far advanced of others; LSP wasn't initially adopted in Lisp communities because better tools (swank) were already around.
- pjmlp 2y agoEmacs linage predates UNIX. :)
- iLemming 2y ago> LSP wasn't initially adopted in Lisp communities LSP and Treesitter were embraced if not shortly, at least eventually. Lispers are well-known, almost notoriously, for "stealing" good ideas from other places - Clojure's transducers, core.async, STM, refs and atoms, core.logic; Common Lisp's condition system, multi-dispatch in CLOS, SBCL's compiler notes, SLIME's debugger - ideas for all these things originated somewhere else.