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Emacs Ninja
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Emacs Ninja is a personal blog at emacsninja.com about programming and security. Since 2017, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “State of Emacs Lisp on Guile”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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- State of Emacs Lisp on Guile5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Isn't the Guile effort practically dead? I remember hearing about it 10 years ago. It was actually started in 2000 and doesn't seem to have progressed since 2014: https://emacsninja.com/posts/state-of-emacs-lisp-on-guile.ht... Plus, even if it's finished, will it get any traction in the ecosystem? Will the ecosystem start moving to it to take advantage of its unique benefits? Who knows? Bonus: Have you heard of GNU…
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on “Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)”Submitted Forbidden Emacs Lisp Knowledge: Block Comments as a story · 109 points
HN discussionI truly love Emacs. Magit is part of what I see as its three "killer apps": - Magit. Best Git UI ever. The other comments in this thread discuss this, so it's probably sufficient to remark that it's the only serious Git tool competitive with Git's own CLI. Equal in power and superior in usability. - Org-mode[0]. Nothing comparable for structured text-editing. - Slime[1]. When you edit Emacs Lisp, you really want its…
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on “Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs”Submitted Code Conversion Language (2019) as a story · 108 points
HN discussionA few pointers, from very knowledgeable fellows (warning C code ahead) - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/01/04/ - https://tromey.com/blog/?p=305 - http://emacshorrors.com/ - http://emacsninja.com/
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on “Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)”Submitted Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs as a story · 105 points
HN discussionThere was also sustained effort over the past two decades to move Emacs from Elisp to Guile but that has stalled: https://emacsninja.com/posts/state-of-emacs-lisp-on-guile.ht...
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on “Steel Bank Common Lisp”Submitted State of Emacs Lisp on Guile as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Emacs Lisp on Guile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MAL (Make a Lisp) in GNU Smalltalk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CVE-2025-1244: From Emacs URL Handler to RCE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Emacs Lisp on Guile as a story · 1 points
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