I agree, but I sometimes stay in Emacs all day for no good reason other than I can - browsing, writing, email, which is like being on a different OS or system a

I agree, but I sometimes stay in Emacs all day for no good reason other than I can - browsing, writing, email, which is like being on a different OS or system and using its utilities, apps and compilers. I find I do the same in Smalltalk. I am currently playing with μO (muO) music composition playground [1]. I just go fullscreen, and I am in the Squeak world all day :) As far as share work, the distributed image, although big, is complete and crossplaform. I boot into different VMs the same way, with the exception that the tooling is more common across platforms. [1] http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm Edit: added link