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As Daniel Colascione ('quotemstr' around these parts) said [1]: > GNU Emacs is an old-school C program emulating a 1980s Symbolics Lisp Machine emulating an ol
by AceJohnny2 1y ago
As Daniel Colascione ('quotemstr' around these parts) said [1]:
> GNU Emacs is an old-school C program emulating a 1980s Symbolics Lisp Machine emulating an old-fashioned Motif-style Xt toolkit emulating a 1970s text terminal emulating a 1960s teletype. Compiling Emacs is a challenge. Adding modern rendering features to the redisplay engine is a miracle.
Emacs owns its main loop because, damnit, it created one before it was cool.
Hats off to any heroes who would manage to drag it, kicking and screaming, into this millennium.
[1] https://gist.github.com/ghosty141/c93f21d6cd476417d4a9814eb71dd46e https://gist.github.com/ghosty141/c93f21d6cd476417d4a9814eb7...