On: TimL – Clojure like language which compiles down t...

[mikegerwitz]

In the never-ending Emacs vs. Vim debate, as a long-time Vim user (with no intent on switching), I've always envied Elisp. tpope has once again delivered and maybe now I can stop shamefully eyeing up Emacs from a distance.

I haven't given this a try yet, but I can expect that, if it works well, it will be worth even a modest performance hit.

[yangyang → mikegerwitz]

It's a start, but one of the huge advantages of Emacs is the fact that a very large chunk of the system is written in Emacs lisp.

[pekk → mikegerwitz]

Rather than transpiling into VimL it might be more productive in the long term to hack on Vim's MzScheme scripting interface...

[Tyr42 → pekk]

Oh man, that would be pretty cool. I would like it more if we could pull it up to Racket, since I've use that and it feels really good as a language. It's what was mzscheme.

[hibikir → mikegerwitz]

Now if Vim only had the really important emacs features, like Sokoban, and a built-in psychiatrist.