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@bshankar @ramin_hal9001 @amoroso @screwtape @sacha

I think #Emacs follows the Unix philosophy
Just fine. It's a system of composable parts,
We keep adding more parts that we can use for our compositions, just like Unix. And many of the things we add are actually from the Unix environment.
We just plug in and use them. There's nothing more Unixy than that.

It's a programming language and an environment and runtime for that language. It just happens to have nice parts to make an editor from.

Really, it's just turtles all the way down.

Emacs was bloated in 1980 when we mistakenly compared it to vi, a tiny editor, thinking that emacs was an editor.