The part the author shared about the huge overhead cost of firing up emacs
TFA's wording on that is a bit misleading.
My Emacs with no config starts in 0.1s (110 ms). My Emacs with my huge config (between 3 000 to 4 000 lines of custom Elisp code) starts in 1.2s or so.
And then of course modern day Emacs is so stable that the thing can stay up for weeks without needing a restart.
It's been a very long time that the "cost of firing up Emacs" is smaller than the cost of firing up 99% of all the software out there (looking at you AppImage , flatpaks, browsers, any desktop app really, etc.).
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TFA's wording on that is a bit misleading.
My Emacs with no config starts in 0.1s (110 ms). My Emacs with my huge config (between 3 000 to 4 000 lines of custom Elisp code) starts in 1.2s or so.
And then of course modern day Emacs is so stable that the thing can stay up for weeks without needing a restart.
It's been a very long time that the "cost of firing up Emacs" is smaller than the cost of firing up 99% of all the software out there (looking at you AppImage , flatpaks, browsers, any desktop app really, etc.).
Stock Emacs: 110ms (Debian Trixie / AMD 7700X / WD-SN850X SSD).
Boom.