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Emacs Is a Lispboard

68 pointsby androstoday at 2:02 PM27 commentsview on HN

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jiehongtoday at 8:54 PM

If we take a browser, and add things to make it a super app, we would basically get an extensible electron app, right?

Maybe, why not?

boscillatortoday at 7:39 PM

> Suppose I want to work in a single place for all my contexts, both personal and professional.

This has always been my problem with adopting Emacs or Obsidian or any other app that purports to do this. Who are y'all working for that you can bring professional stuff onto the same system as personal stuff? I don't want my personal emails on my work computer, and my boss would be rather upset if I brought work emails onto my personal computer. I'd love one of these do everything apps that lets me tag and sync just stuff that ought to be synced.

xvilkatoday at 4:22 PM

Something like Lem[1][2] could go even further because of the richer CommonLisp ecosystem compared to Elisp one.

[1] https://lem-project.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/lem-project/lem

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rbctoday at 4:35 PM

GNU Emacs is probably the easiest way to capture the spirit of working on the Lisp machines. Interlisp is an ongoing project that takes you even further down that road.

behnamohtoday at 4:20 PM

It's a matter of philosophy; would you rather have multiple small apps that do only one job or one "super app" that does it all?

Ironically, starting from the former, I've now turned my tmux into the latter with so many utility apps integrated into it. But now I can see the benefits of each approach. Maintaining "super apps" is more challenging due to the coupling of so many pieces to each other.

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