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What is meant to be the selling point over Emacs? Apart from scheme>elisp? Arguably 80% of the emacs goodness is the terabytes of elisp written in the last few
by rich_sasha 28d ago
What is meant to be the selling point over Emacs? Apart from scheme>elisp?
Arguably 80% of the emacs goodness is the terabytes of elisp written in the last few decades, if you break compatibility with that you need to throw in something pretty compelling.
- rmunn 28d agoNot the author, but I've heard many people complain about elisp and wish they could have written (name of Emacs package) in Scheme. I mean, there's a reason why the https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElispSuck https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElispSuck page exists (HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347697 (2024)). But what's the point of porting (package name) to Scheme if there isn't an editor in Scheme? So that's my guess as to the motivation: solving the chicken-and-egg problem of wanting an Emacs written in a nicer-to-work-with Lisp dialect. Maybe the author will come along and prove me wrong; this is just my guess.