Technology

My two favorite Emacs jokes:

• What does EMACS stand for? Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
• Emacs is a great operating system; it only lacks a decent text editor.

Can you imagine a world where a program originally designed to manipulate documents was extended through a highly dynamic, kind of half-baked interpreted language to the point of underpinning almost every application you interact with on a daily basis and using an order of magnitude or so more resources than are actually necessary?

“It’s all LISP-based. And it’s astonishingly slow.”

HA! Amazing. Two editor-related things I always show people on tours of our museum are the meta key on a Symbolics keyboard, and the arrow keys on an ADM3 terminal. (I wrote this comment in vi.)

Let’s see the VIM one.

This dude's channel is hilarious. Especially the Senior JS one.

"People never quit emacs. They just die at some point"

I think this is his best one yet 😅

I was heavily into Emacs for the last few years, but now I'm back to Vim (Neovim this time)

Classic and so true

I'm up for a round of Dunnet.