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Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer and gradual type system.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2019-07-15 · latest 2026-06-19

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  1. …'integer))` And then there are more ambitious projects like the static analyzer and language server https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa I haven't tried Elsa yet since it seems to require setting up a package manager like Eask (I don't…
  2. I like the ubiquitous type inference. It reminds me a bit of ELSA for Emacs Lisp: https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa . In particular, type aware macros have been on my wishlist forever: there's no good reason I shouldn't be able to write,…
    comment by quotemstr · 2026-05-10 · in Show HN: Rust but Lisp
  3. …in its own right, at least at the language level. There's even a promising gradual typing system: https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa
    comment by quotemstr · 2025-11-20 · in The lost cause of the Lisp machines
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    Elsa – Emacs Lisp Static Analyser
    story by e3bc54b2 · 2022-05-18 · 0 comments
  5. …may be "better compile time warning and errors relying on the propagation engine". [1] https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa [2] https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html Edit: grammar.
    comment by spellcard199 · 2020-07-18 · in Typed Lisp, a Primer (2019)
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    Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer
    story by pcr910303 · 2019-07-15 · 19 comments