If you care about resources then you should really be using ed[1], not emacs.<p>&quot;easily in quotes here because really that just means &quot;people who know web languages&quot;&quot;<p>It&#x27;s my go-to editor&#x2F;IDE for Rust, which is far from a web language.<p>&quot;that goal could still be accomplished in a native application that embedded a JS runtime for plugins&quot;<p>Kind of like Chromium with V8? With full hardware&#x2F;OS access and linking to native code? If only such a thing existed.<p>[1]:<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;fun&#x2F;jokes&#x2F;ed-msg.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;fun&#x2F;jokes&#x2F;ed-msg.html</a>