Really activates my almonds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712038

Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam

Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תיקון עולם‎ or תקון עולם'‎) (literally, "repair of the world", alternatively, "construction for eternity") is a concept in Judaism interpreted in Orthodox Judaism as the prospect of overcoming all forms of idolatry,[1] and by other Jewish denominations as an aspiration to behave and act constructively and beneficially.[2]

Emacs is made in such a retarded way. What's the point of the compiler being attached to the rest of the program like a Siamese Twin? This is coming from someone that's been using it as their OS for years. It's an ancient program and made in an obsolete way. It abides to limitations that don't exist anymore. It has countless design flaws. It's a wonder why nobody has made an alternative. There's plenty flavor of the month text editors but none of them compare to Emacs. Surely it can't be that hard to grab an abstract language, make a graphical window, write some text editing functions, then import and export to text files. Maintaining an entire compiler is unnecessary. If you want to get fancy, have advanced graphical capabilities. Have an OpenGL window or something. Atom does this with Webkit. The problem is that it's even more poorly designed than Emacs. A lot of the bloat would be gone in a rewrite but that would be a good thing. I can live without some of my more obscure packages and functions for the sake of minimizing the crashes and slowdowns. Writing commands may save time but it would be even better not to have to wait after doing every little thing. It's a miracle that Emacs is still the best text editor when it locks up so much. The functionality that Emacs uses isn't even that big. Most of my config file, which is about 1.8k lines not counting packages, consists of trying to get Emacs to stop doing something stupid. It's not adding features, it's just undoing the stupid decisions of the maintainers. Emacs, in typical Lisp fashion, needs to be configured top-down. That's not a feature. Getting rid of the cruft and having a real API far outweighs whatever would be lost. It doesn't have to be complex.