Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes, people want to use cl-lib?

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:37:14 +0100
>> 
>> The reason I will not use seq.el or map.el in the forseeable future is
>> quite simple: I haven't ever needed an abstraction over sequence types
>> using generic functions, and I never have CPU cycles to give away for
>> free.
>
> What prevents us from implementing in seq.el methods for specific
> types of sequences?

I won't :-).

> AFAIU, the only reason we didn't is because no
> one has yet came up with important situations where the generics in
> seq.el are not performant enough.

I don't get that line of reasoning, sorry. The Elisp manual kind of
advertises its abstraction over sequence type, you kind of say it is
isn't needed because it's kind of fast enough, usually.

What I'm missing is a positive reason why to use it. I don't see one.