I can spend more on a phone then I did on my last car, although I pay half my car's purchase price every year I pay for insurance so I shouldn't be bragging!
I mean, I probably do, too. I certainly use my phone much more often (I live in Berlin). But please, can we not make cars smartphones on wheels? I don't want to throw away my car after five years because the software is outdated, the CPU has become too weak and the battery is worn out. (Not a dig against electric cars, their batteries usually last much longer)
I get your point, and adore my Fiero, but most software updates to cellphones are required because they're networked.
Cars don't have to be, nor (IMO) should be internet-connected. So if the CPU in the infotainment system was sufficient at launch, and there's no reason to update the (not-internet-connected) software, then the CPU will continue to be sufficient, and the software being out of date is irrelevant.
Not to defend the modern tablet-on-dash, internet-connected, reports-your-sexual-preference "car", just to point out that the transition to digital isn't, by itself, bad
I'd be more interested in a car, the kind that people had before they went mad. Smaller frontal area, lower center of gravity, lighter weight. More economic, faster, more fun to drive. I don't want to sit high neither, lower is more fun.
A comparison with editors like micro https://github.com/micro-editor/micro or fresh https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh (discussed in the comments) would make more sense than one with vim and emacs. The shortcuts are CUA based. And to me these editors feel more like using GUI editor like sublime text for example. And that's nice.
While vim and emacs have their advantages which I don't want to discuss here, they are also the "big players" with their own philosophy, shortcuts and commands. Which is a hassle to learn when you're used to GUI editors.
Why not let a little space for users who don't want to re-learn how to edit a file ?
Emacs is not an editor, it's a text-based orchestrator - a live Lisp image that happens to ship an editor, where every function is introspectable, redefinable at runtime, and written in the same language. Any external tool becomes something you can wrap into one uniform interaction model - Emacs can control just about anything text-related in its computation vicinity and remote computers.
Emacs's closest competitor for such orchestration is not an editor. It is shell plus tmux plus fzf plus CLI tooling, and now agent harnesses. Those orchestrate fine, but they have no shared runtime and no shared language and the entire model feels clunky.
There's nothing analogous to Emacs that exists today, with the exception of maybe Lem, but this one doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of packages and the community [yet]. And nobody knows if it ever will. Even though it has real threads, the CL condition system, Quicklisp, and sane compilation - none of that helps against forty years of accumulation plus the network effect.
Agreed. The unbearable smugness of the coastal elites is so pervasive, a person will dismiss “those people” but tie themselves in knots to avoid criticizing even the least the current protected class of the month
Or in the case of America, many people just want others to suffer so that they can feel better about themselves, and are willing to elect a leader who will do that on their behalf, even at their own cost.
I live in the east bay and my trips to the ocean and Tahoe have dropped to zero.
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