11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Emacs Lisp first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Emacs Lisp is actually a very powerful environment optimized for this sort of work, even if it's wonky by modern Lisp standards.”
endorse · personal · bitwize · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“emacs-lisp is an extremely fun and productive environment to work in”
endorse · personal · Myrmornis · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“though ELisp itself is bad enough, Emacs' API is daunting”
regret · personal · AceJohnny2 · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“writing ~5k loc of Elisp to scratch almost all my daily itches”
endorse · personal · klibertp · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do read elisp and occasionally write some, but I'm far from fluent.”
neutral · personal · gpderetta · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the software I use on the daily. Think shell scripts, Alfred workflows, Elisp functions, and Obsidian plugins.”
neutral · personal · GeneralMaximus · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The occasional Emacs Lisp function”
neutral · personal · GeneralMaximus · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My only experience of it is from using elisp.”
neutral · personal · beermonster · 2022-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of my customizations are in relation to org mode or custom applications I've written in emacs lisp.”
neutral · personal · justinhj · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Funny enough, I do a lot of Emacs Lisp.”
neutral · personal · cheez · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Emacs you often need to make Lisp macros for customizations.”
neutral · personal · suivix · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?