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When writing code in Emacs, Emacs Lisp for all intents and purposes can be seen as a subset of Common Lisp, not an entirely different language like you present it to be.

Please try not to propagate this sort of misinformation again in the future. The things you claim are obviously wrong to anyone who has ever used Emacs Lisp, even once. Have you ever done that?

Comment · 7 years ago

I mentioned the problem Lem claims to solve and proved that there are existing solutions to that problem. I also put forth that Lem is inferior to Emacs/SLIME/Sly when writing Lisp which should be obvious to anyone with Emacs experience. Then I made additional points which at least two people found of interest and tried to provide answers to.

I'm pretty sure all of that does not translate in me not telling you anything.

Comment · 7 years ago

This post is full of misinformation.

cl-lib.el is not discouraged, it's widely used by Emacs itself and pretty much every substantial Emacs Lisp library out there.

What's discouraged is using an older version, cl.el, at runtime [1] because it replaces existing Emacs Lisp functions and pollutes the namespace. Even that's ok to use at compile time though.

Lastly, cl-lib.el is not cumbersome to use.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/cl/Organ...

Comment · 7 years ago

One persistent problem I see in the Common Lisp (love the language!) space is the wide availability of crapware that not only doesn't bring something new to the table but is actively damaging to the community since it's diluting the set of good libraries and making it harder for new users to tell the wheat from the chaff. Lem is crapware. The problem it's supposed to solve, writing CL without configuring Emacs, is not a problem since there exists Portacle [1]. Lem is inferior to Emacs/SLIME/Sly in every way especially for writing Lisp. Lem has no future. But it exists and may act like a strange attractor to those who don't know better.

A question I'd really like to find the answer to: Why is there so much crapware for CL?. Why doesn't the community come together behind the few, really good, libraries but instead almost everyone goes out and does his own thing, the end result being an ocean of crap.

[1] https://portacle.github.io/

Comment · 7 years ago

Immersion is the killer feature of VR, not standalone graphical fidelity. FOV, 6DOF tracking are far more important today than 4K per-eye resolution and 120 FPS. Moreover, foveated rendering will give us drastic graphical fidelity improvements, in the very near future.

Comment · 7 years ago

Like you I think the Quest will change everything. I feel that it has to, at this point, for VR momentum to break through. Do you think Oculus will dominate the space in the coming decade? I can't help but be reminded of Sense/Net from Neuromancer as a potential VR-only business with massive upside and potential (userbase in the hundreds of millions if not billions) that can be done _today_ if VR headset proliferation went beyond gamers. I am thinking if Carmack and Abrash can't get it done, chances that anyone else will are slim, at least in this generation.

Comment · 7 years ago

One fact that's seldom reported is that RTM's father, Robert H. Morris Sr, started working for the NSA in 1986, two years before RTM unleashed the worm. Food for thought maybe?