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by pmoriarty 3137 days ago
"I feel likes it's a rehash of emacs vs vi debate from 30 years ago. Emacs needed many megabytes more than vi so people wouldn't use it."

The thing is, this was in fact a valid critique of Emacs back in the day, and it cost Emacs users. I know I stopped using it back then partially because of its resource use (and because it was a lot slower than vi and because of its finger-twisting keyboard shortcuts).

If Emacs was as light on resources as vi was back then, it would have more users today.