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The presupposition that anything is killing Emacs - much less this - requires concrete proof. Because if anything, in my (likewise subjective) experience it's t
by natrys 4y ago
The presupposition that anything is killing Emacs - much less this - requires concrete proof. Because if anything, in my (likewise subjective) experience it's the complete opposite. I see more forum activity from newcomers and more high quality packages emerging each year than ever before.
> like an insistence to not using fast native libraries
How? Even disregarding graphics and font stack which almost entirely leverages native libraries, my Emacs build links against gmp, libpng, librsvg, zlib, alsa-lib, libxml2 and so on. 27.1 introduced jansson for native json parsing over pure elisp, from 28.1 we can basically AoT compile elisp to native code using libgccjit, master branch (29) even bundles sqlite these days. That is not to mention module system had been stable for a while, and lot of packages already use this to offload computation heavy stuff to native code.
- retcon 4y ago>I see more forum activity from newcomers It terrifies me how often new users today are gasping for breath on the shores, ungainly four limbed tetrapods gasping for breath...this isn't progress and it's not evolution, there's so much more of everything but it's not at all higher quality for novice users than I grew up on forty years ago. > more high quality packages emerging each year than ever before I question my own ability to quantify modern software quality. Compared with what? My working lifetime has been dominated by corporate shovelware and that's absorbed multiple generations of misguided human and fiscal wealth creating structural deficit immeasurable compared to the Cambrian bounty of my early years. Edited last sentence for clarity.