Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code
by bitwize on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:53AM
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> I'd like to hear more about how you use Emacs as a "super-shell". Do you avoid shell scripts entirely in favor of Emacs Lisp?
No. But I do use Emacs Lisp to automate certain tasks and then wrap them up in an Emacs interface -- like highlighting some JSON to submit to an API endpoint, or using ivy to select a Docker container to start or stop.
> You mentioned network connections - do you actually do scripting with Elisp's networking primitives?
Emacs provides an OOTB way to hit API endpoints in the form of 'request'. So it's not just the networking primitives, but the utilities built on those primitives that Emacs comes with.
> there are many ways Elisp could improve to make this kind of usage easier.
Emacs Lisp has had two major warts: speed, and the lack of lexical scoping and CL-like constructs. The latter is largely addressed. The former is being worked on with efforts like gccemacs.
No. But I do use Emacs Lisp to automate certain tasks and then wrap them up in an Emacs interface -- like highlighting some JSON to submit to an API endpoint, or using ivy to select a Docker container to start or stop.
> You mentioned network connections - do you actually do scripting with Elisp's networking primitives?
Emacs provides an OOTB way to hit API endpoints in the form of 'request'. So it's not just the networking primitives, but the utilities built on those primitives that Emacs comes with.
> there are many ways Elisp could improve to make this kind of usage easier.
Emacs Lisp has had two major warts: speed, and the lack of lexical scoping and CL-like constructs. The latter is largely addressed. The former is being worked on with efforts like gccemacs.