Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:11:18 PM
No.105683073
>>105682969
In my opinion, Emacs' real boon is it's years upon years of pre-existing extensions you can cannibalize. I don't find it particularly nice to write extensions for, outside of the fact that I can just base mine off of someone else's work, and the community standard of documentation makes pulling that work apart kind from a repl kind of nice. If I'm working in a vacuum, emacs is kind of a pain in the ass. The scoping rules and lack of real message passing infrastructure makes the threads a bit of a pain in the ass to use. I always feel like I just devolve into abusing error signals and a mess of globals.
In my opinion, Emacs' real boon is it's years upon years of pre-existing extensions you can cannibalize. I don't find it particularly nice to write extensions for, outside of the fact that I can just base mine off of someone else's work, and the community standard of documentation makes pulling that work apart kind from a repl kind of nice. If I'm working in a vacuum, emacs is kind of a pain in the ass. The scoping rules and lack of real message passing infrastructure makes the threads a bit of a pain in the ass to use. I always feel like I just devolve into abusing error signals and a mess of globals.