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GNU Emacs comes with its own portable execution platform (the byte-code Lisp execution engine), where Java applications typically use a provided virtual machine
by lispm 10y ago
GNU Emacs comes with its own portable execution platform (the byte-code Lisp execution engine), where Java applications typically use a provided virtual machine.
As such GNU Emacs is just as 'non-native' as a JVM-based editor.
- gmfawcett 10y agoAlmost agree with you! If the Emacs VM were used for applications other than Emacs -- if it were a general purpose VM -- then I'd completely agree.
- lispm 10y agoThere are lots of applications written on top of GNU Emacs, but most of the time they use the specific UI and features of an editor, or integrate with the editor. Example: the calculator of GNU Emacs. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...