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by phzbOx 5271 days ago
I'd rather have a Emacs on JavaScript; with a possibility to be run from the browser. (Yes I know, that'd mean rewriting everything. Not the end of the world, it'll be fun time.)
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Not necessarily... The vast majority of emacs is written in elisp, and the amount of instructions written in C is actually rather small, It's been a while, but on the order of a few hundred too a few thousand.

Once you were to rewrite the elisp interpreter, and other calls from C into JavaScript, in theory, running emacs in you're browser isn't actually that absurd.