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So what? There’s no reason the Atom team couldn’t optimise their critical paths while retaining extensibility and cross-platform-ness, and the proof is that Ema
by gaius 9y ago
So what? There’s no reason the Atom team couldn’t optimise their critical paths while retaining extensibility and cross-platform-ness, and the proof is that Emacs has already done it.
Their problem is not technical, it’s ideological
- rayiner 9y agoThat would impair the stated goal of "hackability."
- mr_overalls 9y agoEmacs and vim are perhaps the most configurable and extensible editors/IDEs in existence. Fast doesn't mean unhackable.
- ben336 9y agoIf you read the post, that is mostly the work that they're describing.
- thramp 9y ago> There’s no reason the Atom team couldn’t optimize their critical paths while retaining extensibility and cross-platform-ness, and the proof is that Emacs has already done it. I believe that's what the Atom team is doing. They've detailed several critical paths that can and will be rewritten in C++/Rust in the linked post.