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Comment by tmtvl

1 day ago

> absolute lightweight

> eMacs

I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.

  • Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes

    • Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs

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To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs

  • Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad!

    (Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)