Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Kind of reinventing Emacs and Elisp – looking for feedback
This project is a reimagining of Emacs and its Elisp programming language. Launched in 2018, it's hosted on GitHub for developers and Emacs enthusiasts interested in exploring alternative approaches to the classic text… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kind of reinventing Emacs and Elisp – looking for feedback launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Embedded Lisp Interpreter. Contribute to codr7/eli development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 2IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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Emacs Anywhere▲248Configurable automation + hooks called with application information - zachcurry/emacs-anywhere
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4JS
Together with PEZ (Peter Strömberg) I made a VSCode extension that allows you to script VSCode using Clojure (interpreted CLJS). The repo: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride Introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oTf-1EchU See examples directory: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride/tree/master/ex... See animated gifs and news on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsjoyride?src=hashtag_click&f=li...
2022 · its alternatives →
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2014 · tuhdo.github.io · its alternatives →
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Introducting C+▲1482012 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 7AP
After having cycled through various CLI-based todo apps, I started to realise that I actually don’t need a tool at all for managing my todos. Most of the time, my use cases are quite simple, like viewing my todo items, checking them off, or adding a new one. Rather than having to memorise CLI commands for these interactions (which I’m not super good at), I figured that it’s easier for me to use my text editor directly, and have an editor plugin help me with the visual structure and some convenience functionality. So, kind-of similar to Emacs Org Mode, but without having to use Emacs. I…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2022 · emacs.amodernist.com · its alternatives →
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A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming - susam/emacs4cl
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Next-level syntax for C-like languages :). Contribute to kiselgra/c-mera development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cozy fireplace for emacs. Contribute to johanvts/emacs-fireplace development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built Fresh to challenge the status quo that terminal editing must require a steep learning curve or endless configuration. My goal was to create a fast, resource-efficient TUI editor with the usability and features of a modern GUI editor (like a command palette, mouse support, and LSP integration). Core Philosophy: - Ease-of-Use: Fundamentally non-modal. Prioritizes standard keybindings and a minimal learning curve. - Efficiency: Uses a lazy-loading piece tree to avoid loading huge files into RAM - reads only what's needed for user interactions. Coded in Rust. - Extensibility: Uses…
Dec 2025 · sinelaw.github.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them). The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sometimes, I come across a handy tool or a frustrating issue in my daily workflow. If it's both, I might write a small program in a language I’m comfortable with to solve it. Except for ELisp... For some reason, it annoyed me so much that I couldn't stop writing in it. First, it was simple config tweaks, then small patches, and before I knew it, I was enjoying it. I ended up creating a few packages, and of course, with each one, I’d hit a new problem, push the old one aside, and start fresh. Just hoping I don’t forget to go back to it later. Well, I didn't and I'm slowly revisiting,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, author here. Happy to answer any questions. I had an itch to make a lisp like language that was a thin layer on top JavaScript. Something that could leverage the thriving ecosystem that exists around JavaScript. It's brittle, hot off the oven. Besides being a fan of parenthesis, I think macros fill in a gap that the JavaScript ecosystem today fills in with one-off compilers, bundler plugins and such. Macros can't do everything, but for example I think they have the potential to enable things like JSX, Solid and Svelte style libraries. Take the tour to get a feel for what it can do and…
2023 · daklang.com · its alternatives →
- 18IF
The point of this seemingly useless exercise was to stress-test my elisp-eval MCP https://github.com/agzam/death-contraptions/tree/main/tools/... AI hands it a string of Lisp, it runs inside live Emacs session, poking into it via emacsclient. Behaves like a REPL the LLM can drive - state persists between the calls. Emacs is a Lisp machine. Buffers, files, network, subprocesses, games, major modes, the UI itself: every feature is already an elisp function. Hand an LLM a way to run arbitrary elisp and it inherits the entire Emacs API for free. No…
Apr 2026 · imgur.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2016 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
- 20GI
Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D
2023 · its alternatives →
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment to bring ChatGPT to Emacs as a shell. I was fairly new to both ChatGPT and building anything on top of co...
2023 · xenodium.com · its alternatives →
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AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go. The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it. The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea Technical details: As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole…
2025 · siruscodes.github.io · its alternatives →
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Compiler for the C3 language. Contribute to c3lang/c3c development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FUSE filesystems in Emacs Lisp. Contribute to vkazanov/elfuse development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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