[knodi123]

> Still: is anyone complaining of Emacs or Vim or ST3 being slow/complex because they have installed plugins to the core?

Emacs? Yes. Absolutely. Emacs once stood, humorously, for “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. That is a valid complaint that people have made.

[mcbuilder]

That comment would make sense in the 1990s when we had 32 MB of ram, but you probably haven't used it since then. I type `e` and I'm instantly in an emacs client frame running on top a server and using a modern package manager that loads plugins and different modes in on the fly. I restart and kill the entire server after editing my init.el file and it takes takes a few seconds. Emacs itself takes up so little of a memory footprint I don't even care about it. And do you seriously think that a text editor that is older than most people on HN would be wasteful about allocating resources?

[knodi123]

> Emacs itself takes up so little of a memory footprint I don't even care about it

First it was lean. Then it grew and became bloated. Then people complained. And then available resources grew so fast that it didn't matter.

I didn't say emacs is too bloated to use, so your entire comment is a little off base. I said people have complained about emacs getting bloated in this same way for the same reasons. And they have. Historical fact.