Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Emanuel Berg]

Ergus wrote:

> In 1992 there were less alternatives around
> and most of them were uglier, notably more
> limited or most expensive. But in 2019 there
> are cheaper, prettier and free alternatives.
> They are not as powerful as emacs, but they
> are more ergonomic

I didn't start using Emacs in 1992 - you did?!
- but rather around 2008-10-17, that is
10y 7m 5d, or if you'd like, 3869 days
ago :) [1]

Emacs is free, and free of charge, and the
prettiest software ever. [2]

As for ergonomics the configuration
possibilities makes Emacs the most ergonomic
software as well. The mouse-free style of most
Emacs' hackers is also more ergonomic than the
"click and play" of much other software.

Emacs would be even more ergonomic
out-of-the-box if the default background color
was black and the cursor didn't blink by
default. (At least in the GUI Emacs, that _is_
an Emacs thing, right? In the Linux VTs, one
has to disable that outside of Emacs.)


[1] line 43 @ https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/time
[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/emacs/emacs-cpp.png

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