{"id":1401,"date":"2015-04-23T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T00:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T00:50:25","slug":"switching-to-emacs-from-vim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/switching-to-emacs-from-vim\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to Emacs from Vim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking more and more at Clojure and decided to start coding using emacs. <\/p>\n<p>Clojure is the language behind many highly performant and concurrent systems. It was used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-languages-and-frameworks-is-Simple-built-with\">BankSimple&#8217;s<\/a> early days. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also used at Akamai, a CDN, which has to serve hundreds of thousands of requests per second, when content rich media is getting &#8220;slash-dotted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think my interest in using emacs has to do with how tightly knit Lisp is to it. It also seems highly customizable in a way that&#8217;s different from Vim. It&#8217;s highly customizable in a more programmatic way.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clojure.org\/getting_started\">Getting Started<\/a>&#8221; guide for Clojure, and emacs is recommended as the editor to use if you&#8217;re new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking more and more at Clojure and decided to start coding using emacs. Clojure is the language behind many highly performant and concurrent systems. It was used in BankSimple&#8217;s early days. It&#8217;s also used at Akamai, a CDN, which has to serve hundreds of thousands of requests per second, when content rich media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clojure","category-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}