s.el VS plz.el

String manipulation (the sort of stuff included in the s.el ELisp library);

We will mainly look at 3 packages: s.el, f.el and dash.el. Two of these packages (first and last) are maintained by Magnar Sveen, who are also known for Emacs Rocks and What The .emacs.d (which are still great resources for learning and finding inspiration for your Emacs configuration!). We will also look at ht.el. These packages are used a lot in many of the Emacs packages you use in a day to day basis, like lsp-mode and rustic just to name a few. As most of these already have tons of examples in their READMEs, my main goal of this article is to inspire you to check them out. Hopefully you will know of one new package after reading this article :)

https://github.com/magnars/s.el (available on MELPA)

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