Mano thanks, Gavin. I was trying to convert a bunch of .md files in a pdf book, without any success via Latex, for some odd unicode chars impossible to handle. With groff it was just a breeze! Thanks

Aaaa yeah, yeah - no doubt - very convincing

MIT professors make a comment in one of their teaching videos that "pointy hair administers" told them to stop teaching LISP and teach languages that were used in industry.

Another underwhelming wide-eyed intro to a lisp repl that does nothing interesting. And the comment section is full of drones praising s-expr and how they can do a lot more with a lot less or something. Or maybe the whole thing is satire. In any case, this just makes me want to stay *far* away from any kind of lisp. Waste of time.

I'm in a laptop rn.

Typeclasses don't require and dont give you higher kinded types. You happened to write a typeclass instance (Functor) for a higher kinded type (Box) but they are orthogonal concepts. `Num`, `Read`, and `Show` are examples of typeclasses that don't require a higher kinded type.

Thank you for the tutorial. This was very clear and helped me a lot to configure my keyboard. Kind of getting a qmk/programmable keyboard without the need for spending a lot of money.

is there a way this program can remap two number pads into one split keyboard ?

This video is so helpful! Thank you!

Beautiful font :) What is it's name???

There are several cute things included in the loop extensions that make certain toy problems trivial, but it is so un-Lispy that I avoid them all. It's more than just an aesthetic issue -- a DSL, especially a non-Lispy one, belongs in a loadable library, not the language core. Because of the syntax of this DSL, it is tricky and sometimes impossible to add type declarations without violating that syntax. Similarly, it is tricky and sometimes impossible to instrument the code with things like counters and accumulators and conditional breakpoints. I think it is much better to write one's own specialized iterator macros that look and behave more like the core built-ins of map, reduce, and do, but with whatever specializations and optimizations that apply to the problem at hand. I also think it is better to do that because it lets me be a programmer, not a configuration technician.

Can one get ctags like functionality in vanilla vim?

Your comments on Common Lisp performance are just plain wrong, btw. It has (without additional libraries and right out of the box): arrays, hash-tables, ... So the data structures are not the reason. And Common Lisp is fast (SBCL for example). Python is not even in the same ball park. So, you cannot argue that perfomance was the reason Common Lisp did not become main stream if mainstream python is by a factor of 30 slower, 25 years later and popular....

Just imagine all the work hours, spent on rust and zig and llvm and (and the weekend spent on python) and Haskell and whatnot - all going into making Common Lisp perfect? This, my friends would be heaven on earth.

Nice video, great gentle introduction to org. You mentioned org-capture as one of the things to look into at the end, but forgot it's almost constant companion: org-refile!

I hear you prefer cabal over stack, because it's not needed any more. How about dockerizing your app? AFAIK, only stack support such command.

Beyond Mars -level cli setup... slick.

Been wanting to learn Clojure or Common Lisp. Although Clojure seems really cool (it introduced me to LISPs), I was never able to get the environment setup in Emacs like i saw people do it. Then on top of that, I just don't like the the Java Interop code looks -- just puts me off. I'm actually turning to Common Lisp to see if setting it up is easier. I don't know if anything I want to do can be done in CL though. It just seems like a freaking cool language.

I had installed all the dependencies and tried using Roswell as well as the shell script from the install directions. Additionally on arch I could not makepkg, there was a fatal error in SBCL about core being built for a runtime that was not matching my host name and I dont know enough or have the patience to try to solve it. So I went back to Emacs. Plus after reading a very well written opinion about LEM on Reddit it seems that its a good concept but still too young and lacks the practicality Emacs has after decades of maturity.

one day Lisp will return - as IO for LLMs

Why learn it??? because it helps you get good at Elm.... which will destory Javascript in the long run.... a worthy goal for anyone.

Thanks! Kmonad is a great piece of software. It just works, and the configuration file (intimidating at first) is very easy to edit because it has a smart design. I had tried to configure my keyboard with a mix of xmodmap, setxkbmap, sxhkd and xcape. All of them worked for one specific thing but were very incompatible with the others, and some had a horrible syntax. Kmonad did everything with a single binary and a single configuration file. Awesome.

haskell is a math language

Watch the video "The Curse of Lisp". The strengths are also weaknesses. Like rolling your own syntax using macros might be fun for computer nerds but horrible in a production setting

You realize Type Classes are yet another workaround (similar to templates in other languages) caused by constraints of a strongly typed language? Javascript, Python etc simply don't have this problem because they're weakly typed. Which is my preference honestly

>2024 >2 years ago 🤔

Type classes seem very similar to C++ templates. Are they really that different?

Since I spend 40 hours a week at work using my employer’s laptop, I’d need a way to access my personal notes over the Web or synced to my personal phone before I could consider using Emacs Org mode. Can Org Mode data be accessed in either of those ways?

"...the development past these simple prototypes was very slow and seemed to run into a wall very quickly" - unfortunately, this is a concise description of programming projects in general.

It blew my mind; even though I have used Org mode since 2007, I didn't know many of the things you mentioned here.

Thank you very much for the great video, Gavin! I followed the instructions to set up Corfu in my emacs. It works for Lisp but not Python. Is there any other extensions I need to install to make it work for Python?

Hi, please tell me what kind of theme you have in emacs ?

Emacs has a regex builder?? Awesome 🥳

Get on board with Clojure everyone!

I have tried using Doom emacs and just can’t for life of me figure out it’s purpose over vanilla emacs.

I’m in such a hype for Ocaml and Lisp now. I’m learning algorithms in Haskell. I’m leaving my OOP root into the FP world!!!

Hello :) I've been using more defun recursion with tail call optimisation to do loops recently. It's a one-size-fits-all solution :)

Why do near 30% of programmers tend to give you "uncanny valley" vibe in their videos?😅

Just been offered a full-time graduate full-stack engineering position working with haskell and typescript... very excited!

On a completely unrelated (or related) topic; Could GNU-Jami be a viable replacement for Discord ?? You know since you seem to be a GNU-Guy (not really, but Considering Emacs welllllll.... ok fine)

Man this video is god. Btw this might be too specific, and im kind of an emacs/linux noob. Do you happen to know/can you make a video on how to configure guile-geiser in Emacs?

"Why You Should Learn Lisp In 2024" is not a question; don't put a question mark after it.

Back in the 80's we learned Lisp on IBM's Lisp/VM while at the University of Maryland. Recursion seemed so seamless in Lisp. I can't say why, later I felt that my work with Lisp helped me feel more comfortable writing with SQL queries.

My goto languages for AoC is Clojure. Mainly because I don't use the language enough, and AoC gives me a use case for practice. I might, at one one, vaguely thought of using elisp, but passed because of my Clojure focus. This video confirmed my basic approach. • Read text from source file • Convert data to a data structure • Process the data structure with appropriate functions

Adding lambdas to hooks is bad form.

Who is learning LISP right now?

wow I finally understand macros, I finally know how to play with them!

Can only do programming with Lisp. Also learned how to do formal mathematical proof in the sense of Curry-Howard btw.

well, I'm trying hard to agree with you,but I'm 3 days straight trying to get the lsp to work on vscode, and I use arch (btw), so I'm used to clunky configurations with confusing documentation

As stress increases every language devolves to lisp