Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript

Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by bitwize on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:34PM (#26470181)

I personally look forward to the day when every program I run embeds JavaScript and an HTML engine in it. Then we will be living in an age of true modernity in software development.

Systemd-ng, anyone?

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by nn3 on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:56PM (#26470403)

I'm sure Samsung, Micron and every other company selling DIMMs are looking forward for that day too. It would need how much more memory for everything?

My beefy desktop computer is often already struggling just to run Chrome.

Emacs used to stand for "Eight Megabytes and constly swapping", maybe they could name it now Egacs (Eight Gigabytes ...)

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by anthk on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:43PM (#26470869)

In the days of the 486 being nothing more than "junk" compared to a Pentium 2, running Emacs with SICP on Texinfo format was the light approach compared to open a full browser to read HTML pages.

Ditto with Groff+Mom occuping a few MB (totally doable in 1997) vs a GB LaTex install lasting several minutes to render a PostScript, and then running X (if even) just to display the resulting file and nothing more.

Nowadays even QT5 software looks lightweight enough compared to some Electron monsters...

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by daotoad on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:30PM (#26470740)

Is this satire?

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by dleslie on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:02PM (#26472444)

You're not thinking modern enough; what we need is uboot-ng!

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by anthk on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:52PM (#26470372)

That's Gnome3-4.

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