I watched oppenheimer in emacs, u watched it in imax, we are not the same

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          Yeah it’s pretty amazing system all things considered. It’s kind of as if 8-bit home computer systems continued to evolve, but keep the same principles of being really closely tied to the HW and with very blurry line between kernel and user space. It radiates strong user ownership of the system. If you look at modern systems where you sometimes don’t even get superuser privileges (for better of worse) it’s quite a contrast.

          Which is why it reminds me of Emacs so much. You can mess with most of the internals, there’s no major separation between “Emacs-space” and userspace. There are these jokes about Emacs being OS, but it really does remind me of those early days of home computing where you could tinker with low level stuff and there were no guardrails or locks stopping you.

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    Late 30s dev here: I’ve never cared to learn emacs or vim, tried when younger, but left it. Am I a fraud?

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      I used to be a vim fan but now I only use it for modifying files over SSH. Other than that I code with an IDE, you can’t beat all the plugins and linters with a in-terminal editor. A colleague still codes in emacs and its code is dirty af.

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        A colleague still codes in emacs and its code is dirty af.

        PEBKAC - don’t blame emacs (not sure why anyone would use it when vim exists, though)

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      An extremely extensible text editor, there’s jokes that it can do literally anything, you can play music, watch video, etc.

      It’s often at war with the cult of vi and the church of emacs.

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        You should really convert to helixism, the latest messianic update to the cult of vi.

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          I’m a vim and emacs user for some decades already. I had this urge one day to try and work with helix. It kind of misses some things such as file manager or editorconfig support. Nine months later I’m still using helix. It still misses these things, but I really started to like how I don’t need any plugins to work with it and I need about five lines of configuration to have a usable editor. Probably going to continue using it.

          And it is written in Rust, which is my main language and I can just jump in to the editor source and fix things if needed.

          I miss magit and org from emacs a lot though. Every time I need to write an article, I do it in emacs.