[askvictor]

Back in the 90s I used to make fun of emacs for being a text editor that took up 20MB of disk space.

[yunruse]

Ah yes, who can forget Eighteen Megabytes And Constant Swapping? IIRC it comes from the Lispy environment that lends it its scriptability. Memory is cheap nowadays so we can afford to be less suave and use the multi-purpose well-rounded duct tape that is Javascript