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

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Kangas wrote:

> More fundamentally, I believe the question we should be
> asking isn't the quantity of cl-lib used in Emacs, but
> rather why these abstractions from Common Lisp appeal to
> ELisp developers. Most ELisp developers, I presume, do not
> have a background in Common Lisp, indicating that their
> choice to use cl-lib.el isn't driven by a mere affinity
> for CL.

Good idea, I tried this to find out. Maybe the command can be
improved ...

$ grep -E -h -o 'cl-[-a-z]*' **/*.el | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -b -n | head -n 
10

   1416 cl-defmethod
    979 cl-loop
    720 cl-incf
    614 cl-lib
    486 cl-assert
    309 cl-letf
    303 cl-seq
    281 cl-defstruct
    257 cl-defgeneric
    227 cl-case

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