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Lisp in Production: an interview with the guys behind Nyxt Browser [video]

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105 pointspedrodelfino15 comments

On the topic:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172641 Runnnig Lisp in production (2020) (Grammarly)

- interview of Kina Knowledge: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ (document-processing stack)

Hadn't heard of Nyxt and looks like my kind of thing, though I'm more of a vim person, can anyone give a comparison to tridactyl etc?

> though I'm more of a vim person

You can set vi keybindings.

There is a whole article comparing Nyxt to plug-ins (such as tridactyl): https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/nyxt-versus-plugins.org

That's useful, though I'll note that tridactyl has an optional 'native' plugin that can provide the connect to native benefits.

I'm actually hoping tridactyl will follow neovim and embrace js more (similar to lua in neovim).

So not a great sales pitch for me specifically, but still sounds like a step forward for turning browsers back into user agents for power users and programmers.

Where would you like to see Tridactyl use more JS?

We already have `:js` and `:jsb` along with a few commands that accept JS callbacks :)

why is nyxt not on homebrew?

There are some issues building webkit-gtk2 on mac, there's no stable package so far. If anybody gets it building reliably, it might make it to homebrew.

They say the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing man that GNOME developers might one day fix the outstanding issues with GTK2/3...

this is such an interesting project. three things i would love to see is a proper privacy focused with tor option version; a pdf reader; integration with org-roam

Why replicate a PDF reader in-browser when it would be really easy to hook it up to pass PDFs to a plethora of system applications?

As for integration with org/roam, I agree — there’s a lot of potential there, and it’s at an ideal stage for people to get involved and experiment with a variety of approaches.

the reason for pdf integration is precisely integration with org/roam. i read a lot of pdfs and emacs pdf reader does not do smooth scrolling, which is a bit of an annoyance. having this feature available will solve that. plus nyxt has awesome page searching capabilities

> emacs pdf reader does not do smooth scrolling

I have had this[0] bookmarked for a while now, never got around to setting it up. Maybe this can be helpful (there do seem to be some quirks according to the readme).

0. https://github.com/dalanicolai/pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el

cheers! i will have a look

> integration with org-roam

looks like someone has already implemented this: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/orgzoc/org_roam_and_...

I'm curious to try it but I'm not well-enough versed with nyxt yet

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