Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16/09/2023 16:00, Po Lu wrote:

> ISTM that it would be more productive to examine LibreOffice.  We do
> wish to turn Emacs into a word processor, after all.  And LibreOffice
> provides layout capabilities that are in no way inferior to those
> supplies by the editors found within web browsers, all while being
> designed to edit rather than display documents.

A non-programmable specialized application vs. an extensible platform.

> And as a second data point, none of the web browsers cited in this
> thread still function on the computers I use five days a week, at my
> workplace.

They do at mine.

> Nor do they support Windows XP, which I believe Eli uses.

Not sure how that's relevant in a discussion about architecture.