A retrospective on “setup”

It is about five years ago that I submitted a package called setup to GNU ELPA 1 . The premise was simple, I had grown dissatisfied with use-package and wanted to implement my own “configuration macro” that would be a better fit for packages written in a good style . In this post I’d like to look back on the package and the macro, to chronicle my experience and the lessons I took away. Issues with…