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A comment on Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta. Parent comment

Re:Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta by coldtea on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:05PM (#12206754)
Emacs has tons of C code. And the display (and core text manipulation stuff IIRC) is not written in elisp.

In contrast, Atom just uses native code as the JIT, and then not only does (almost) everything in JS but also renders it with slow DOM.

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Re:Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta by moosingin3space on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:37PM (#12207527)
I'm looking forward to Guile Emacs, if it ever gets merged into mainline, because emacs will then have a JIT (and maybe we can then land things like real threads)
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