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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by efficax on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:13AM (#15365417)
It's 10MB uncompressed because go compiles libraries statically in the binary. 10MB is not really a big lift, and static compilation makes binary distribution much simpler.

I don't have any objection to packaging emacs with the OS. Actually, it comes with macOS, although without graphical support (/usr/bin/emacs).

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