[sillysaurusx]

Not AI, but I studied it extensively for about 6 months. I was trying to port Emacs to JS, line by line, about eight years ago.

I love Emacs' design. I think the cruft is minimal, and pretty much every line of code I studied had a good reason for being there.

And I also think there's a lot to learn from studying how Emacs is implemented. Few people will probably do this, but it was a nice experience for me. I learned a lot about gaps, text properties, how buffers are implemented, how the eval function works (it's surprisingly complicated between buffer-local variables and thread-local variables, but it's hard to think of a simpler alternative), and how intervals are implemented.

[thecloudlet]

It’s not easy… I’m working to understand it. Recording the process through the way.

[sillysaurusx]

I'd like to hear about it as you go! If you have any questions, definitely contact me. Love me some emacs.

[thecloudlet]

Thanks!

[scroy]

Why were you trying to port it to JS?

[sillysaurusx]

It was fun, and I wanted to see how far I could get. Plus emacs in a browser without emscripten was appealing to me.