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magnars/dash.el

A modern list library for Emacs observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/magnars/dash.el · Emacs Lisp · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 97
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5063
  • days_rel: 539
  • days_push: 23
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1745 stars · 138 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

dash.el is a modern list manipulation library for Emacs Lisp, providing a rich functional-style list API without requiring the cl library. It includes anaphoric macro variants and tooling like fontification and Info symbol lookup support.

Use cases

  • manipulate lists in Emacs Lisp with map/filter/reduce functions
  • avoid using cl-lib for list operations in Emacs packages
  • write more readable functional-style Elisp code
  • add a modern list API dependency to an Emacs package
  • fontify dash variables like it and acc in Elisp buffers

When to choose

  • you are writing Emacs Lisp and need expressive list processing functions
  • you want a well-maintained, widely-used list library available on GNU ELPA and MELPA
  • you prefer functional-style list operations without cl-lib dependencies

When to avoid

  • you are not programming in Emacs Lisp
  • you only need basic built-in list functions and want zero dependencies

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages emacs-lisp list-library functional-programming emacs

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