Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
by tsimionescu on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:12PM
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Well, Emacs has some major limitations as an editor, places where it really shows its age. Particularly, it is single threaded and this affects many normal uses - for example, while opening a connection to a remote machine with TRAMP, the whole GUI is completely frozen. Similarly with many development tools, such as magit or the excellent lsp-mode (Language Server Protocol support).
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
by _huayra_ on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:47PM
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Exactly, if it wasn't for the community building and maintaining great packages like org/magit/lsp-mode etc, I would've dumped Emacs long ago. Building that as someone who has other responsibilities than editor hacking is just a non-starter, so I stick with Emacs despite it's event-loop-blocking quirks because of it.
I wonder if there will be a way to sidestep these limitations or if something in the language semantics would forbid it (e.g. the way Python is basically limited with the GIL because current updates are basically not tolerated by the semantics).