He and his team should be praised and prized for the achievement and results.

On the other side, this shows how slowly ideas can spread even in globalization times. I'm a pediatrician in Brazil and have used and been taught to use improvised bubble CPAP, with great results, since the nineties. I've heard reports of its successful use since, at least, the 80's decade.

I hope those devices can swiftly be fully scientifically validated and reach all needing regions of the world.

edited: grammar

I am always amazed at the quality, intelligence and experience of HN readers on any topic you can imagine. I love being in a community where a pediatrician from Brazil can comment on a medical discovery. I’ll probably be downvotes for a silly comment but feel like HN elevates my life.

I'm always pleasantly surprised by this too. There are experts and hobbyist in every field in this community. It is one of the reasons why I look forward to the comments more than the articles themselves.

> I’ll probably be downvotes for a silly comment

I don't see how your comment is "silly".

That's surprising. Why do you think this kind of information diffuses so slowly?

I don't know for sure, but I think two important factors are:

1) The lack of proper/popular communication channels between medical communities (apart from the academic ones)

2) The fact that these improvisations are often deemed as undesirable or inadequate (even shameful) without the due scientifical scrutiny, only because they are cheap or simple

Fair point, but in the specific case the differences matter indeed. StumpWM is coded and extensible in Common Lisp, while Emacs use Emacs Lisp and Guix is built on Guile Scheme - both not CL conformant.

it's a very lispy stack, otherwise!

Ah. Yes. Right. But these aren’t Common Lisps. But you’ve indirectly brought up another useful point, to wit, the general Lisp paradigm is so useful that language designers regularly approximate it when building new platforms. (Clojure is another.)