[jrockway]

I tried to use Emacs lisp, several times, but was never able to warp my head around the weird functions naming.

Any suggestion?

Ignore the "weird function naming" until you get used to it. Read the docs to pick up advice on how to do things the Emacs way, so the simplest macros aren't "tens of lines of code". And finally, read the Emacs souce code to see how Emacs does it. Remember, Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp, too!