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> Is the author going to uninstall Slack, Atom, Chrome, and Spotify, then? I read Slack in emacs. I write code in emacs. I browse the web in emacs & Firefox.
by zeveb 10y ago
> Is the author going to uninstall Slack, Atom, Chrome, and Spotify, then?
I read Slack in emacs. I write code in emacs. I browse the web in emacs & Firefox. I play music via my phone's native Google Play Music client, although if I wanted to I could use emms, an emacs music-playing mode.
I have no desire to run some GUI-only, CPU-hungry, memory-ravenous, of-the-moment JavaScript nightmare of a program. My productivity as a developer is hindered by those things. I have no desire to write JavaScript: I'd rather write Lisp, or Go, or Python.
Yes, it's possible — and preferable! — to uninstall Slack, Atom, Chrome and Spotify. Try it today.
- arca_vorago 10y agoI find it interesting how many devs I have met in the last few years who seem so tied to GUI's... as a sysadmin who lives mostly on the cli, I never understood it. Side note; many of said devs also used OSX instead of linux, maybe some correlation there. Emacs is where it's at. Really, it's my main operating system. Email, org-mode, erc for IRC, RSS reader, editor, twitTER, eww (for some things like documentation), dired for folder management etc. Currently working on learning ledger. "Using a free version of vi is not a sin but a penance."
- Andrex 10y agoThis comment is semi-ironic to me because traditionally Emacs had the reputation of being bloated and slow compared to its competitors. Maybe in a few years hardware will similarly catch up to Electron? Food for thought. :)