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Advent of Code in Emacs Lisp? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by domsch1988@alien.top to c/emacs
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I'm a "Neovim Refugee" trying to get a deeper/better understanding of how emacs lisp works and how i can use it to expand on my emacs setup. I have never done anything in lisp before and still struggle to understand how single quotes signify a function or what ever.

With that said, i was also planning on doing AoC this year. Originally i wanted to look into zig or go, but now think that this might be the opportunity to dive into lisp for a bit.

But with knowing basically nothing: Is this even "viable", or advisable? Should i be looking at common lisp instead? Or would you say that's a pretty dumb idea and i should rather learn it in a different way?

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[–] SegFaultHell@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everybody learns differently, and there’s a lot of people who learn languages through advent of code. AoC can have some problems that could take literal years to solve with a naive solution, so just keep in mind you can cancel a slow function with C-g and you don’t need to reboot emacs entirely.

The other thing to keep in mind is that this would help you learn elisp (and general lisp syntax), but won’t teach you as much about the functionality you can do with emacs. It’s still a good place to start though, since you’ll need to know elisp to customize emacs.

Lastly I would recommend looking into Structural Editing a bit, here’s a decent article that covers the basics in vanilla emacs. This is by no means a requirement for writing elisp, but using the sexp commands makes working with all the parentheses infinitely easier.

Good luck!

[–] ffrkAnonymous@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for that article