I use Macports on my work Macbook, but I'd love for Portage prefix to be fully functional on ARM Mac, personally. The tool interface is just so much better.
on contrast, I have a 32bit macbook pro on snow leopard, so none of these shiny tools can be even remotely useful to me (sapphire being arm only? yeah, that)
Maybe somewhat, but it's not hard to get pathologically bad GC behavior out of generational GCs either. Pools / manual memory management will always have some reasonable use cases.
More than two is a bit painful, in my experience, as I don't think Emacs has directional focus like the usual X11 WMs (e.g. i3, bspwm) and C-o works well with only two.
Magit and sly/SLIME work much better with a second window, I'd say.
It does, but I don't think they have default bindings. The commands are windmove-{left,down,up,right}. I've had them bound to C-S-{h,j,k,l} for years and it makes moving around much more fluid and predictable than C-x o.
I'm a decent fan of both Tcl and CL, but Tcl has the big problem of being "almost" homoiconic and lacking good meta-programming tools like quasi-quoting. I say almost because comments break homoiconicity, whereas in CL they are discarded at read-time, never appearing in the parsed tree.
Quasiquoting allows us to specify a mostly fixed template of code where we would like to indicate variable parts that are to be substituted (note: not evaluated).
The stuff here sure looks like quasiquoting to me:
I don't see what crusty implementation details have to do with a philosophy. In fact, UNIX itself is a poor implementation of the "UNIX" philosophy, which is why Plan 9 exists.
The idea of small composable tools doing one thing and doing it well may have been mostly an ideal (and now pretty niche), but I don't think it was purely invented after the fact. Just crippled by the "worse is better".
Why would Lispers feel at home with its (whitespace delimited) syntax? Quite the strange claim.
I know this isn't a common rant, but I hate so-called functional language still bowing to the "infix mathematical operator special case" dogma, when those are just binary (variadic in Lisp) functions.
Always found it pretty appealing, otherwise. And no ";;"!
It's certainly an incredible gem, but I do find it quite bloated in features. Which is why I plan on trying https://github.com/baskerville/plato one of these days, to see if it does everything I need.
