plz.el VS ement.el

plz can make the network code easier to write: https://github.com/alphapapa/plz.el

I've released version 0.2 of plz.el, my HTTP library for Emacs Lisp that uses curl as a backend. This version includes a new feature, a simple request queue system. It works like this:

url-retrieve is definitely a bit awkward. I started working on plz, which I use in Ement.el. Lars also has a branch with a macro that wraps url-retrieve with a nicer API; he hasn't merged it yet.

Request is a good library in many ways, but you may also find my new plz.el HTTP library interesting. It's at an early stage of development and could use more testing.

fyi, the first link in the README appears to be broken: https://github.com/alphapapa/plz.el/blob/master/httpbin.org

Please see https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el/issues/55

Only login limitation might be from the lack of support for SSO https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el/issues/24 but judging from the issue it looks like SSO logins in ement.el will be coming shortly

I tried out ement recently and boy it's slick. Easily the best interface to Matrix I've used on a personal computer. Alphapapa doesn't miss.

It doesn't support single-sign-on (SSO) yet, but this is being tracked in https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el/issues/24. If you can chime in and help test the code there, that could help get support merged sooner.

This is very interesting. I've been thinking about using an AVL tree in Ement.el for the lists of events in each room, because they need to be used in-order by timestamp, and they can be received in any order (e.g. when loading older events), and it wouldn't be good to re-sort the whole list after each insertion. As it stands, each event is effectively sorted at the time it's inserted into a room's buffer (which may be never, depending on whether the room has an open buffer), and it works well enough, but I wonder if it could be improved.