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by cmrdporcupine 5 days ago
Lem already has a clone of legit. And there's org-mode-alikes, as well.

There's very little I miss when I use lem, TBH.

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That's plausible and isn't too hard to imagine. The value of Emacs is not the concrete implementation of it - let's be honest, GNU Emacs is not void of enormously annoying warts. The value of Emacs is the nice foundational Lisp layer - something Lem does provide.

One side of me wants to remain skeptical - knowing how much stuff there exists in Org-mode and Magit - piles and piles of different workflows thousands of users had to go through over the years - a bunch of well-trodden paths.

At the same time, I am well-acquainted with the power of Lisp and its communities. Give Lispers a powerful engine, and they'd take it to the moon and beyond. Lem's been steadily developing over the past few years and slowly been adding users, at least I keep hearing of curious people trying it. Meanwhile Org-mode's core feels almost stagnant, and it's one of the "killer apps" of Emacs. Lem might be on the brink of making things so appealing that it would be hard to refuse it. For some lispers that's already the case. I'm wholeheartedly welcome this challenge to Emacs' hegemony. I love Emacs and I hate Emacs, because sadly (or otherwise) I don't see any practical alternative for it - anyone who thinks nvim or vscode are even in the same room are clueless. Perhaps, the time to seriously consider Lem is almost (?), already (?) here.