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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:18:53 +0200
> 
> 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

Some of these are macros in cl-macs, so not relevant to the discussion
about cl-lib.