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Over the years I have see a number of posts about revamping emacs. Is there anything that actually works?

• pja 10y ago
  Atom is the “spirit” of emacs, taken into a world where your language of choice is Javascript & the runtime is the web browser. Otherwise, not that I’m aware of. Everyone knows that Elisp is horribly crufty, but getting everyone to shift to a new language requires carrying all the extensions over which is a huge task.
  • pjmlp 10y ago
    To the point that it makes users of a modern PC in 2017 feel like they have traveled back in time and are using Emacs on a VAX/VMS system.
    • pja 10y ago
      Yeah, the size of the binary distribution alone is kind of eye-watering. Google Chrome as a runtime is not a small dependency.