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I hope org-mode gets more popular outside of Emacs. I know all the words already about how org-mode is great because of Emacs, but the way you can do plaintext outlining, with grea…

All metaphors break down at a certain point, but power tools and generative AI/LLMs being compared feels like somebody is romanticizing the art of programming a bit too much. Copyr…

When it comes to the comparison with other languages like Zig, Rust and Go, I disagree. I think it's because it hits its """new weird thing""" budget really quickly with Abilities …

I disagree with the author, but I also get the impression that their view of notes is fundamentally different than mine so there's that. I like the way LogSeq implemented daily not…

Does Zen browser allow you to hide the top (address) bar? That's the thing I liked about Arc.

> I’m not sure there is really more to say here. I'm sure that there can be some very interesting discussions about code-in-database and interop with tooling! > I’m just not sure I…

This is a good point, and deserves a lot more discussion about it. I personally don't mind that my code is somewhere else than in a text file, because as it now I have to ductape a…

The tooling is surprisingly good for such a "young" language. I've had experience with other budding languages, like Nim, Zig, ReasonML throughout the years(not comparing these lan…

Pleasant surprise to see Unison mentioned! The developer experience in Unison(and Unison Cloud) has been wonderful for me. I try to write as much in it as possible, for hobby proje…

Kakoune does, and I found it (without extensions) to perform excellent even with multicursor. Not saying that array of lines is more performant than ropes, but just adding a datapo…

Using meow: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others. The muscle memory t…

> Furthermore, the idea that plugins could've been in Rust or Rust through WASM meant that I'd have an editor which was completely hackable in the least annoying way possible. Ever…

I absolutely don't mind the plugin system being a Scheme. It's a plugin for a text editor, and Steel( https://github.com/mattwparas/steel ) seems to be a lot less of a maintenance …

This, plus abilities[1](what Unison calls algebraic effects), make Unison such a joy to work with, it's a very pleasant experience. You can get straight to the business logic. I al…

Yeah, the learning curve is there, but it has its benefits for software development. Personally I really am enjoying the one implemented by Unison: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs…

I really like d2 a lot more than its alternatives. However the big problem here being that d2 is still quite new and isn't as well supported as Mermaid JS

Can one try out this new DE right now?

Yes, see this Github Discussion for more context: https://github.com/koka-lang/koka/discussions/339#discussion... > yes! Currently the active development is in dev-fbip, see also o…

I found the developer experience of EdgeDB to be really great. A CLI tool that does all the work, a very declarative schema language that is easy to learn, migrations built in. Hel…

> that JavaScript framework that takes a year to understand will no longer be used in 7 years. Surely there is a lot more nuance for having a nicer database query language than com…

What is the status of ReasonML? My first experiences with ReasonML were very nice, because I found OCaml syntax confusing. I kinda left around the time ReScript got introduced. But…

I have tried oh-my-zsh, but still fish was easier to get started with. Especially with autocompletions. However oh-my-zsh was pleasant to use as well!

Fish is that shell for me. I tried nushell and zsh. zsh required a bunch of setup and nushell was too young. Whereas fish has really great defaults and enough of support to just go…

orgmode + org-babel comes really close, but I feel like org just doesn't get much traction outside of Emacs,because markdown is good enough.

Sweet!! I ordered one(tho I live in Europe) and waiting for it to arrive. Meanwhile I can Google places where I can buy the order pieces. Thank you!