Emacs Is Not Enough
I can&#x27;t but reflect back on another post I made today, which is that everything fails at scale.  Literally everything.  They just fail in different ways and made different tradeoffs along the way.<p>For example, this is why I find myself using &quot;print&quot; debugging on a process of 10^4 values.  It is fun to think that, &quot;maybe I can step debug this&quot; on that many values, but... that is well beyond my capability to keep it in my head, such that any help the debugger gives is added to zero.  Which... is not good.<p>That is, complaints that ridiculously large forms cause issues in a debugger seem... pointless?  Lets say you managed to keep that from crashing, do you actually have a way to make it workable?<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, if folks are constantly opening JSON files that are gigabytes in size, it makes sense to focus on that and make sure it doesn&#x27;t crash.  I just, can&#x27;t imagine what benefit you get from opening an X gigabyte file.  I can&#x27;t even see what the advantages of opening an X megabyte file are.  That is literally beyond my brain power.<p>So, looking to rewrite an emacs is always one that strikes me as a huge risk of throwing the baby out with the water.  There is more than a fair chance that what you like about the current setup is a necessary implication of choices that you think you don&#x27;t like.