Hacker News Reader

I'll record a demo this week! I wouldn't recommend trying it as a standalone window manager right now. Maybe by V3 it should be usable. I don't know much about EXWM, but I would guess the fact it uses Guile affords different powers than using Elisp.

View on HN

Honest question: is there a major difference? I thought they were just dialects of lisp (guile is technically scheme, but isn't scheme just a descendant of lisp?)? I figured they might have slightly different syntax and that's it.

There are differences in how you'd use them. Scheme is very focused on a minimal core and extension through macros and similar constructs, whereas, as far as I know (nb: I don't use emacs) Elisp has a lot of pre-built constructs that are used far more.

Also, Guile being the implementation chosen is not incidental, the GNU project is moving towards Guile as an extension language everywhere (The big example here would be GuixSD).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com