{"id":5372,"date":"2016-07-04T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:32:24","slug":"the-light-weightedness-of-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5372","title":{"rendered":"The Light-Weightedness of Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Most of you know that I really, really love Emacs but it wouldn&#8217;t occur to me to describe it as \u201clight weight.\u201d For most of its life, a major complaint about Emacs was that it was so heavy weight. Who can forget the retronym Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping? Back when it was coined, 8 megabytes was a <i>lot<\/i> of memory so the joke is more damning than it may seem to our modern ears. <\/p>\n<p> Therefore, I was a bit surprised when I saw this tweet <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apps using significant energy: Visual Studio Code. JavaScript! Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emacs?src=hash\">#Emacs<\/a>. Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping &#8211; but so lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stefan Arentz \u2615\ufe0f (@satefan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/satefan\/status\/749276637712289796\">July 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Emacs? Light weight? I just smiled and moved on. Later, though, I came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/4qzfdp\/is_emacs_cable_of_becoming_a_fullfledged_ide\/\">reddit post<\/a> that once again described Emacs as light weight. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve been using Emacs or Vim for a long time and don&#8217;t have any experience with the newer editors and IDEs but seeing Emacs described as light weight makes me wonder what their performance is like. One thing for sure, it makes me glad I&#8217;m an Emacs user, whether or not it&#8217;s light weight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know that I really, really love Emacs but it wouldn&#8217;t occur to me to describe it as \u201clight weight.\u201d For most of its life, a major complaint about Emacs was that it was so heavy weight. Who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}