Seriously, though, if you think these are worrying showing signs of feature creep in Emacs, you haven’t been paying attention to Emacs for the last 30 years. We don’t just have feature creep; we have feature galloping, and we like it that way.
Except unlike golang, emacs has a habit of including unnecessary features, tempting people to do things like display a web browser in their text editor.
As to whether that’s useful or useless, that’s up to you!
Yet another Webkit instance. I’m definitely not going back to emacs. I can bet that it will divert from mainstream quickly and might not get prompt security patches applied.
I don’t use Emacs (I’ve tried to switch multiple times over the past 20+ years and it’s never quite stuck), but I’m always in awe of how a 40-year old text editor is still under heavy development and remaining relevant in a world of text editors written in Javascript and running in a bloated web browser container (I’m looking at you Atom and Visual Studio Code).
Hrm. I wonder if it’s possible to run Cloud9 inside Emacs? I’m guessing probably…
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THIS.
IS.
EMACS.
Seriously, though, if you think these are worrying showing signs of feature creep in Emacs, you haven’t been paying attention to Emacs for the last 30 years. We don’t just have feature creep; we have feature galloping, and we like it that way.
As a huge emacs user, I see feature creep in emacs as similar to saying there’s feature creep in golang every time someone writes a library.
These are merely applications that are being enabled by the emacs runtime, not features of an individual application.
Except unlike golang, emacs has a habit of including unnecessary features, tempting people to do things like display a web browser in their text editor.
As to whether that’s useful or useless, that’s up to you!
I would make the email client feature creep joke but I’m sure it’s already a reality
Emacs is a GNU Lisp Machine emulated in software, pretending to be a text editor.
Yet another Webkit instance. I’m definitely not going back to emacs. I can bet that it will divert from mainstream quickly and might not get prompt security patches applied.
Hurts. Good thing mg(1) has our backs!
I don’t use Emacs (I’ve tried to switch multiple times over the past 20+ years and it’s never quite stuck), but I’m always in awe of how a 40-year old text editor is still under heavy development and remaining relevant in a world of text editors written in Javascript and running in a bloated web browser container (I’m looking at you Atom and Visual Studio Code).
Hrm. I wonder if it’s possible to run Cloud9 inside Emacs? I’m guessing probably…