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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24 2022, @01:22AM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday March 24 2022, @01:22AM (#1231574)
Much like previous sworn-enemies Britain and France joined forces to defeat the Germans in WW1, vi and emacs may need to ally themselves against Electron-based editors like VSCode. The latter are becoming increasingly popular, to the point that vi vs emacs may become as irrelevant a battle as Apple II vs Commodore 64.
Eight Megs And Chewing Swap? If only! Cramming a whole damn web browser in there just to edit a text file makes emacs positively slim by comparison!
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(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:31PM
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I've been told that the Javascript spec specifies proper tail-recursion, but that common implementations in browsers don't implement this properly. So there is at least some awkwardness using Scheme in Javascript.
I had never heard of this Electron until relatively recently. Apparently it's yet another layer of bloat to the tune of 2GB so that Microsoft can run their garbage (ported to Electron) on non-Windows OSes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24 2022, @01:22AM (8 children)
Much like previous sworn-enemies Britain and France joined forces to defeat the Germans in WW1, vi and emacs may need to ally themselves against Electron-based editors like VSCode. The latter are becoming increasingly popular, to the point that vi vs emacs may become as irrelevant a battle as Apple II vs Commodore 64.
Eight Megs And Chewing Swap? If only! Cramming a whole damn web browser in there just to edit a text file makes emacs positively slim by comparison!
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:31PM (6 children)
Maybe this could be amicably settled by porting all of Electron to run on emacs Lisp?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 30 2022, @06:20AM
Emacs got a vi implementation (several, indeed). That didn't end the vi vs. Emacs battle.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 30 2022, @02:19PM
Where's the +1 Flamebait option?
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @02:38AM (3 children)
Isn't there an implementation of Javascript in Scheme?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @01:58PM (2 children)
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.
There is at least one scheme (or partial) implementation [github.com] in JavaScript.
So at least it can be alternating turtles all the way down.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @06:27PM (1 child)
I've been told that the Javascript spec specifies proper tail-recursion, but that common implementations in browsers don't implement this properly.
So there is at least some awkwardness using Scheme in Javascript.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @07:26PM
This brings me back to the Java programming language where Java programmers know that memory is infinite and can never be exhausted.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday April 10 2022, @10:48AM
I had never heard of this Electron until relatively recently. Apparently it's yet another layer of bloat to the tune of 2GB so that Microsoft can run their garbage (ported to Electron) on non-Windows OSes.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].