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GitHub - emacs-ng/emacs-ng: A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender. (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by debordian@alien.top to c/emacs

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[–] codemuncher@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I recently had cause to try to load some code into a JavaScript repl from a typescript project. Man what a nightmare.

The js ecosystem is very difficult to work with. Many options and browser issues are intertwined. Clever ideas abound… but that might be part of the issue.

JavaScript wouldn’t be an improvement over elisp imo. The theory is that a more accessible language would bring users, but many devs aren’t interested in anything but getting the job done with vs code and then going home.

And honestly the ridiculous quickness in which things get deprecated despite no replacement is a bad developer mindset.