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

[Emanuel Berg]

João Távora wrote:

>>> Throughout this long discussion, this indiscriminate use
>>> of cl-lib has been supported only by occasional
>>> contributers. Those who actually maintain other people's
>>> code, apart from (I think) Eli, Richard and myself, have
>>> been conspicuously silent.
>>
>> I like cl-lib (it could be optimized better still, but it's
>> good for certain uses), and this discussion doesn't look
>> like it will reach any constructive conclusion, so it
>> didn't seem worth it to spend time on it.
>
> If it needed any confirmation, I too like cl-lib and I too
> help maintain other people's code in the Emacs core tree as
> well as maintaining a number of libraries I have authored.
> I read many styles of Elisp here and am not really phased by
> any particular programming technique being discussed here
> (cl-lib, seq, pcase, verbose while loops with catch/throw,
> etc etc).

I like cl-lib and I maintain an ELPA package [1] - ELPA, as we
know, is part of GNU Emacs. It doesn't use cl-lib. Okay,
so bad example then.

[1] https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/wrap-search.html

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