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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by pmoriarty on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:23PM (#24875810)
I've actually started to transition my shell scripts to eLisp for better integration in to Emacs and eshell.

As a Lisp, eLisp is not the greatest, but I'd still much rather use it than Python.

I also don't want to sit and twiddle my thumbs while a Python script takes its sweet time in loading. Slow startup time is the kiss of death for most shell scripts.

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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by ed25519FUUU on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:34AM (#24877188)
Python startup time is slow for you?? It’s basically instantaneously on every machine I’ve ever used, unless there’s some seriously poorly written imports.
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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by jhayward on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:22PM (#24880122)
You find Emacs to have a faster startup time than Python?
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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by ywei3410 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:20PM (#24881689)
I'm not the original poster, but judging from the answer it looks as though they'd already have an Emacs session open and can execute it without any extra startup-time; in which case the answer is yes, because there's no startup time.
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