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bitwizeyesterday at 10:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Actual multithreading, and a UI that was state-of-the-art sometime later than 1978, might be a good beginning.


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jbstackyesterday at 11:47 AM

I agree with you on multithreading. But for most Emacs users, the rich and highly customisable keyboard-driven UI (including packages like embark, which-key, transient, hydra, ivy/helm/vertico, etc.) is one of its strengths over traditional GUI IDEs. It doesn't need to be "state of the art" to be good, and there's a reason that Emacs has remained popular despite its age. Sure, it's not going to appeal to most VS Code users, but that isn't the point of Emacs.

teddyhyesterday at 11:21 AM

Does this look like 1978 to you? <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

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