You're spitting nonsense. Emacs cannot exists without running inside a Lisp REPL loop. Emacs is not a text editor, technically it's a Lisp REPL with the built-i

You're spitting nonsense. Emacs cannot exists without running inside a Lisp REPL loop. Emacs is not a text editor, technically it's a Lisp REPL with the built-in editor. Dynamism and malleability on the live image is the point. That's the categorical feature of Emacs. Any attempt to build it differently; well, will end up being not Emacs - entirely something else.