As a once and sometimes avid Emacs user, I don’t want to relate to this as hard as I do.
FWIW: I tried to set this posts language to elisp but it wasn’t an option.
“It’s all LISP-based. And it’s astonishingly slow.”
My two favorite Emacs jokes:
- What does EMACS stand for? Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
- Emacs is a great operating system; it only lacks a decent text editor.
Can you imagine a world where a program originally designed to manipulate documents was extended through a highly dynamic, kind of half-baked interpreted language to the point of underpinning almost every application you interact with on a daily basis and using an order of magnitude or so more resources than are actually necessary?
I don’t have to imagine that world, VSCode exists.
“People never quit emacs. They just die at some point”
HA! Amazing. Two editor-related things I always show people on tours of our museum are the meta key on a Symbolics keyboard, and the arrow keys on an ADM3 terminal. (I wrote this comment in vi.)
Let’s see the VIM one.
This dude’s channel is hilarious. Especially the Senior JS one.
I think this is his best one yet 😅
I was heavily into Emacs for the last few years, but now I’m back to Vim (Neovim this time)
I’ve also switched to Neovim. It was just easier to customize and I really didn’t need all the extra operating system features built into Emacs.
That’s why I switched too.
I also wanted to use more of the coreutils in my workflow to make me a better engineer since they’re present on every system while my emacs config is not.
Classic and so true
