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Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by projectazar@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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.

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[–] sjolsen@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Mars@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t have to imagine that world, VSCode exists.