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so - your 1st point of reference is vscode which is an electron app, and then you diverge getting into emacs startup time and emacs reputation for 'bloat' this
by cat199 6y ago
so - your 1st point of reference is vscode which is an electron app, and then you diverge getting into emacs startup time and emacs reputation for 'bloat'
this reputation by the way was 'earned' when entire computers had less memory than a typical emacs or vscode instance, and similarly,
emacs likely currently uses less RAM than vscode due to afformentioned electron. Also: vi vs emacs 'bloat' wars were in reference to actual vi, not vim, which basically has the same non-core functionality as emacs (e.g. GUI widgets, editor-hosted scripting language) that was the basis for the original 'bloat' argument.
this is not very coherent.
- dfabulich 6y agoI agree that VS Code is even more "bloated" than Emacs, but it has a multi-billion dollar corporation funding it. If Emacs could get that, maybe Emacs would be as popular as VS Code! But, short of that, Emacs can't beat VS Code. Emacs could beat Vim, but only by being so fast and small that it gets installed by default on Linux distros (and macOS and WSL). But that'll never happen, because Emacs folks prioritize features over performance. (If they cared that much about performance, they wouldn't be Emacs users!)