alt Hacker NewsI feel the lisp constructed on top needs significant language expertise. Lispy constructs of defvar, defconst, defcustom, alist, cl-loop etc. are quite extensively used in emacs - and need an understanding quite unique to Lisp. Of course, the domain then builds on top of this shared understanding of the contructs themselves.
I would say that loss of expertise in emacs-lisp is a significant loss, even if there continues to exist C-expertise globally.
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samus • yesterday at 8:43 PM
It's just a Lisp dialect at the end of the day and not much more complicated to learn than Javascript. The only unusual aspect is its prevalent use of dynamic scoping, although nowadays lexical scoping is also available and encouraged AFAIK.
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There's a wealth of packages and the documentation for emacs-lisp is quite extensive. It's not some esoteric language. But what I'm talking about is that the code for the packages can be quite simple and readable.