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0 pointsjoshjob4210mo ago0 comments

I have only just begun my road down lisp, from starting to hack some elisp and working with some CL for fun. But structural editing is turning out to rapidly be my favorite feature, to the point that I'm working in my personal time on a lisp (syntax? language? idk haven't exactly decided) on top of Julia (my preferred language) so that I can use structural editing. The ability to just grab and drop entire expressions and advance through code by expression at a given level of the tree or up and down it is just really really nice.

There already is a LispSyntax.jl but it's sort of trying to be a Clojure clone and I don't care for it, haha.

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iLemming10mo ago

I know, right? I honestly have no idea how the heck did I even code before in non-lispy languages. I imagine if I had to pair-program with someone today it would go like: "hey, how do I grab this part of the function quickly, so I can move it out?"... "Wait, what? I have to manually select it, there's no quick way of doing that with a single keystroke? Oh, I can use this 'powerful refactoring' feature of the IDE? Huh... and it only works for this specific language, there's nothing for a different one? Got it, okay... daaaarn... and I thought the coding supposed to be the easy part of programming..."

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0 pointsjoshjob4210mo ago0 comments

There already is a LispSyntax.jl but it's sort of trying to be a Clojure clone and I don't care for it, haha.

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iLemming10mo ago

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