amen zwa, esq. on Nostr: npub15fe8s…3x47v Well said. Or is it "Well, sad—JavaScript"?🤣 I think Guy ...
npub15fe8snwf0jsk93au6haj3zrtxx9awz3wcc8lxx6qmypv6tndww6sp3x47v (npub15fe…x47v) Well said. Or is it "Well, sad—JavaScript"?🤣
I think Guy Steele (brilliant, humble, lovely bloke) wrote Emacs around 1975. And of course Brendan Eich slapped Java (really C) syntax on Self-Scheme amalgam, and called it JavaScript in 1995. So yeah, Emacs did have two-decade head start on browsers. But Emacs LISP came out in 1985, so it's only a decade ahead.
Emacs is now just one of the old editors. But imagine yourself in the 1980s college dorm, with a VT100 and a 1200 baud modem connected to a VAX-11/780. It was either Emacs or Vi. For me, the choice was clear.
In 1995, Scheme already had continuations, tail-call elimination, macros, and loads of other advanced features that JavaScript still can't dream of. That's why Eich chose Scheme for Netscape. But alas....
Check out Nyxt.
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer
I think Guy Steele (brilliant, humble, lovely bloke) wrote Emacs around 1975. And of course Brendan Eich slapped Java (really C) syntax on Self-Scheme amalgam, and called it JavaScript in 1995. So yeah, Emacs did have two-decade head start on browsers. But Emacs LISP came out in 1985, so it's only a decade ahead.
Emacs is now just one of the old editors. But imagine yourself in the 1980s college dorm, with a VT100 and a 1200 baud modem connected to a VAX-11/780. It was either Emacs or Vi. For me, the choice was clear.
In 1995, Scheme already had continuations, tail-call elimination, macros, and loads of other advanced features that JavaScript still can't dream of. That's why Eich chose Scheme for Netscape. But alas....
Check out Nyxt.
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer