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Minimalist? Really now.
by sigzero 9y ago
Minimalist? Really now.
- snaky 9y agoWell, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
- msla 9y agoComparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure. Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano. Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.
- yellowapple 9y agoIt's basically a Lisp machine runtime that happens to include a built-in text editing window. Compared to the likes of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Sublime, though, it's certainly minimalist. The typical "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" joke is a bit quaint nowadays.