Comment by jibal
1 month ago
"What are you even talking about?"
Not understanding something is not a virtue, not something to act smug and superior about.
"It's like wishing for java programs to be able to execute without JVM, or Erlang-code without BEAM."
No, it's not like that.
"Org-mode is written in Elisp, of course it needs Emacs to run."
There are (incomplete of course) apps outside of emacs and elisp that process org-mode files. And even if there weren't, it makes sense to wish that there were. In the mind of a clear and competent thinker, the mere fact that org-mode needs emacs to run is not a reason not to wish it weren't.
> Not understanding something is not a virtue, not something to act smug and superior about.
I'm sorry that I sounded like acting smug, I'm honestly just trying to understand what you're wishing for. An external (non-elisp) org-mode parser or something? I don't get your last paragraph in your latest response, like at all.