The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study

1. vui.el

   1 2 227 9.4 Emacs Lisp

   Declarative, component-based UI library for Emacs. React-like components with state, hooks, reconciliation, and layouts - rendered using native Emacs widgets.

   

   At minimum, the one linked in the blogpost is a new library for the existing emacs: https://github.com/d12frosted/vui.el

   That's in melpa, one of the primary package repos for emacs today. The author's work seems focused at basically making emacs UI development for extensions more akin to the structure and flow of more modern frontend patterns

   Others have tried to solve that problem in different ways, such as the Emacs Application Framework (https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework) There are a number of utilities implemented with that, but they're primarily in Python and not "lispy" in the way this library seems to be.

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3. emacs-application-framework

   2 42 3,473 4.8 Python

   EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs

   

   At minimum, the one linked in the blogpost is a new library for the existing emacs: https://github.com/d12frosted/vui.el

   That's in melpa, one of the primary package repos for emacs today. The author's work seems focused at basically making emacs UI development for extensions more akin to the structure and flow of more modern frontend patterns

   Others have tried to solve that problem in different ways, such as the Emacs Application Framework (https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework) There are a number of utilities implemented with that, but they're primarily in Python and not "lispy" in the way this library seems to be.

4. vulpea

   3 4 438 9.6 Emacs Lisp

   Database layer for org-mode notes with async indexing, rich queries, backlink discovery, and external change detection. Scales to 100k+ notes.

   

5. inline-interactive-forms.el

   4 1 0 6.8 Emacs Lisp

   inline interactive forms backed defined by json schema

   

   I spent some time reorganizing the code in my gist into a repo for better change tracking at https://github.com/whacked/inline-interactive-forms.el

   I also pulled vui.el into the dev setup and basically instructed the agents to reach feature parity. I ran out of CC credits fast so switched to codex. Codex makes a lot of unbalanced parenthesis mistakes even in agent, although it does eventually get it right by telling it to run emacs itself. Codex wasn't able to reach feature parity though, like the background color indications (I supply a video in the readme). I didn't look too deep yet.

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