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Oh, this is awesome! Between StumpWM, emacs & now nEXT, my entire desktop could be Lisp.

Rather than using ECL to embed Lisp in C++, have you considered using an FFI to call out to QT from Lisp? Nothing's wrong with your approach, of course (the venerable emacs is Lisp atop a C core, after all!).

I wonder how difficult it'd be to get uBlock-style adblocking working on this.




Hi zeveb, thank you for the kind words!

I have thought about that, and afaik that is the approach of CommonQT, definitely a good solution, but I chose EQL + ECL specifically due to the fantastic support their respective developers provided. They're really smart guys, and I appreciate what they're doing.

Ad-blocking shouldn't be too hard to do in QT, I think I may have to do it in the C++ Layer below though. I believe one has to extend QNetworkManager or some other similarly named class.

Anyways, thank you for your interest, lots of new features in the works :)




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