Lem Modularity Philosophy

[jgarte]

Hi,

What if Lem were library-first and highly modular?

In other words, its architecture could consist of independent modules that can be combined into a Lem metapackage or into other variants to assemble a text editor, much like SICL.

What do you think?

[VisenDev]

Isn't lem already highly modular? A lot of the core functionality is already split up into its own individual systems https://github.com/lem-project/lem/tree/main/extensions

[jgarte]

I mean both the core of Lem and its overall module architecture.

Ideally, that architecture would be editor-agnostic, with Lem being just one possible editor assembled from the shared components. I understand that I can already import public functions and selectively reuse Lem pieces, but doing so is largely at my own risk: the project is still fundamentally organized around Lem as the primary editor.