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by globular-toast 656 days ago
I think every Emacs user has thought the same thing. The trouble is Emacs isn't the interpreter, it's the enormous amount of Lisp code written for that interpreter. This isn't the first CL Emacs and probably won't be the last. For a CL version to work you've got to be so good it attracts enough people over despite it being initially worse. But that group of existing Emacs users is already tiny and they spend enough of their time hacking Emacs... This one not being GPL doesn't help either.
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jfaz1 656 days ago
To be fair, this project is not a CL Emacs. It's a separate editor doing its own thing that happens to share the same keybinds and a few architectural decisions.
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cmrdporcupine 655 days ago
That's literally what an emacs is though.

long history of that that predates GNU emacs, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmacs

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jfaz1 655 days ago
Sure, I get what you mean. Reminds me of the whole "GNU plus Linux" thing. I think it's more a matter of setting expectations, a lot of users come in expecting it to behave like or be compatible with GNU Emacs, when it's not trying to do that. What comes to my head when I think of "CL Emacs" is a CL variant of a project like Guile Emacs, Remacs, etc. and not a standalone editor. You're right, but I'd venture to say most hear the word "Emacs" and only associate it with GNU Emacs.
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