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I remember when Emacs stood for “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. And now Atom comes along... “Application To Overflow Memory”? In another 20 years,
by groovy2shoes 10y ago
I remember when Emacs stood for “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. And now Atom comes along... “Application To Overflow Memory”? In another 20 years, will Atom be considered “lightweight” the way Emacs is now? Will Atom even still be around? I'm fairly confident Emacs will still be around…
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI've got 8 gigs of ram, I'd like to see it try: the problem isn't memory usage, it's weak, inconsistent abstractions.