Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language
by notacoward on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:12PM
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Etymologically, they sure do. For all of its warts, elisp has not only many users but many programmers who have created some pretty complicated stuff. It's definitely a contender.
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Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language
by bjoli on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:00PM
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Popular has many meanings. If one takes popular to mean done/used by many then sure. You are right. Filing tax returns is popular by the same definition.
If you mean popular as in the antonym of unpopular I don't think elisp can be called popular. I have written several thousand lines of elisp outside of my Emacs config, and it is probably my least favourite lisp - and I believe most people who know more lisps than elisp think like I do.