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Comment by noufalibrahim | Hacker News Reader

This is more like a novelty feature to showcase the "power" of elisp. I haven't tried it but it's not really going to compare with normal browsers like chrome and even FF. There might be some use cases for things like viewing well structured HTML documentation or browsing a few sites but apart from that, I'm not sure what the value is.

I'm a long time Emacs users and it's quite frustrating to see how hard it is to use ecosystems of modern languages/frameworks like vue etc. I'm not that familiar with the ecosystem so it might my fault but this is my impression. I actually shifted to vscode to do this. If energy like this were spent there, I think it'd help adoption and usage much more.

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    Posting from Emacs
    ==================

    It works well enough to post in hacker news. You just need to
    enter all the text in another buffer first, add a line of blank
    spaces at the top, and then kill and yank into the text area. As
    far as I can tell you can copy the way that org-mode deals with
    src-blocks to automate it, but this works well enough for me for
    now.

    It even works in emacspeak, which is kind of amazing. I have a
    blind accessible webbrowser inside an editor without even trying.

    (define identity
      (lambda (x)
        x))

    Even the scheme and paredit-modes work. Essentially it lets you
    author plain text emails as HN comments.

    +--------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |Pros                      |Cons                           |
    +--------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |You can make things look  |You can waste a lot of time.   |
    |amazing.                  |                               |
    +--------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |You can use whatever text |You have to choose what format |
    |mode you think is best.   |you like best: org vs md vs    |
    |                          |rest.                          |
    +--------------------------+-------------------------------+

It’s also good for documentation and stuff like Stack overflow.

You don’t need JS for all web-content.

I found tide-mode with RJSX to be mostly equivalent to VSCode (It uses the same language server as vscode, so feature-wise, it’s very close).

I had a really weird experience here: I liked VSCode, and almost switched to VSCode for JS and emacs for everything else. On a whim, I found tide-mode and tried it out. I thought “this works pretty well, but it seems slower than VSCode, and more flaky”. Then, I switched back to VSCode for a while and I realized that it had almost all the same issues I had in emacs (I forget what they are, it’s been a while). So, I left VSCode and have been using emacs happily do JS for the last couple years.

I find it sad that "well structured HTML" is listed as a clear outlier.

I do too. But I think that ship has sailed.

Have you ever tried LSP?

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