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> if you believe in the Unix philosophy then you have to admit that Emacs is simply bloated and trying to do too much and therefore is not really the best at an
by kqr 4y ago
> if you believe in the Unix philosophy then you have to admit that Emacs is simply bloated and trying to do too much and therefore is not really the best at anything
On the contrary, Emacs tries to do just one thing: provide an Elisp runtime for other applications. It does this fairly well.
Do not confuse Elisp applications like evil, org, calc, magit, etc. with Emacs itself!
- ragnese 4y agoYep. If you see Emacs as a text editor with lots of features, then it's doing lots of things. But, if you see Emacs as a platform that comes bundled with some apps by default, then its "one thing" is to be a text-oriented app platform. The whole "do one thing" slogan is kind of vacuous anyway; e.g., what if my "one thing" is "implement all WWW standards to be able to use any web page"? Is that still "one thing"? If not, then wouldn't implementing only "one" part of WWW be useless?