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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>You've almost certainly all heard this sentence before. As a new Emacs user and someone who does want to really get to know Emacs, I want to hear about all the pros and cons I have heard so far, from you guys. I'm really surprised how friendly this community is. I've never seen a more friendly online group ever. </p> <p>I am the guy that asked about "Emacs-Lisp functions beneath the surface" a few days ago. </p> <p>Anyway, I was watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc&ab_channel=thoughtbot">this video</a> and there is something that caught my attention more than anything else. And that is the sentence at 14:00 : </p> <blockquote> <p>" Emacs is 12 MB, core with none of the Lisp extensions." </p> </blockquote> <p>Is this really true? Why is Emacs considered a bloat Software, in some communities, then? 12 MB doesn't seem much. </p> <p>And what do people mean when they say that Emacs is bloat or memory intensive? Is the core bloated?<br/> There are definitely people that are more for debating than actually addressing problems or having a discussion. So I'm really curious, is it that there is actually a real reason they are saying it, or is it just that it's a common "saying" of Vim users and users who find Emacs "too difficult"? </p> <p>Or is it that an average user uses so many packages that Emacs becomes CPU and/or memory intensive? </p> <p>What do you consider a bloat software?<br/> Also, even the guy in the video said that at 18:20: </p> <blockquote> <p>"All these things that people have said about Emacs having a big footprint and being memory intensive blah blah blah <strong><em>it's all true</em></strong>" </p> </blockquote> <p>I would love to hear your perspective on this commonly brought up "contention".</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aqua_cap"> /u/aqua_cap </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r7qah6/emacs_is_bloat_and_memory_intensive/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r7qah6/emacs_is_bloat_and_memory_intensive/">[comments]</a></span> |