> It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. It's currently single-threaded, but fo

> It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. It's annoying, yes, but not a huge issue. > Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO. It's not great, but it's better than anything else out there. Elisp is far preferable to JavaScript, dynamic scope makes a lot of sense in an editor, the ability to run in a terminal is fundamental, extreme extensibility is key in an editor. Everything we do on computers other than playing games consists of reading or editing text: there should be no reason to directly run any other program other than one's editor. emacs's only failing is that it doesn't have a full-fledged replacement for Firefox built in.