This post doesn’t rise to the Red Meat Friday level but it did amuse me. Like all such memes, it captures an essential truth. The “essential truth” here is that Elisp is the glue that you can use to bind together various Emacs functions—including those you write yourself—to enable bespoke functionality specifically tailored to your workflow.
I often see n00bs saying that they don’t know Elisp and that it’s too much of a chore to learn it. I don’t understand that. Elisp is relatively easy to learn, enables you to make the most of Emacs, and also opens the world of Lisp and all its wonders to you. Why wouldn’t you want to learn it?
I sometimes hear that Elisp is currently the most used Lisp. I don’t know if that’s true but I’d certainly have no trouble believing it. In addition to enabling custom Emacs functionality, I often use it for one-off calculations because it’s easy, Lisp, and built into my editor. More and more, I use Elisp as my go to language for one-offs.
If you’re an Emacs user and don’t already know Elisp, I urge you to consider learning it. It will pay you dividends.