Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
by omaranto on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:23PM
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I agree about Emacs Lisp. A language without dynamically scoped variables or without macros would be a big step backwards.
Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
by tetris11 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:45PM
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This. How is Stallman holding back the UX?
Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
by iLemming on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:08PM
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He ain't holding it back. He's stalling it. He's the Stall-Man after all.
It doesn't follow Apple UI guidelines. In 1984 we learned that having one, single, mouse-driven UI paradigm for all programs, handed down to us by our superiors in Cupertino, was an objectively superior mode of interaction with a computer, saving many lives' worth of time and brainpower over the years. Yet somehow, Stallman remains so empathy-deprived as to be stubbornly unenlightened by this knowledge.
I'm somewhat curious what choices of Stallman's you think are holding it back. Feels more alive to me than it has ever felt. And that branch that is using gcc to compile elisp is a delight.
I concede I expect there are choices made that could be bad; but I suspect most of the choices people think matter, don't. Which is why i highlight the compiling elisp branch. A complete rewrite would not have had as much of an impact. And, frankly, I feel elisp is easily as good of a language as any proposed choice. Better than most.