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Re: Is Elisp really that slow?


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: Is Elisp really that slow?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 11:47:22 +0300
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On 16.05.2019 23:50, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
Emacs provides some advantages, but they are not apparent until you
experience them. That's a problem for people grown on a culture of
instant gratification. Emacs appeals to certain type of users who
understand that gains require efforts.

I strongly disagree: as somebody who like instant gratification, I see that Emacs provides significant advantages to us: fast ability to see how it works and why, to change its behavior in an instance, to experiment without recompiling/restarting/whatever.

Whose are the things that VS Code and friends do not provide. Vim neither, not to the same extent.



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