Re: On elisp running native

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.12.2019 10:17, arthur miller wrote:
> I haven't yet installed WSL, nor do I have any plans. I don't see why 
> should I install entire Linux kernel if I can run applications natively. 
> I don't understand why people are so excited about wsl when they could 
> just run Linux kernel on bare metal? I do it 99% of time myself and I 
> don't miss Windows at slightest.

So do I. We are not the target audience, are we?

> Mingw and/or Cygwin do just fine for the apps that does not have native 
> win ports already, but most worth-have apps are already written in 
> portable way. Running entire wm and another kernel just to run an app is 
> an overkill on resources in my eyes.

How big is a kernel? 5 MB? 50? It's tiny compared to the amounts of RAM 
we have these days.

We either pile on abstractions, or multiply different versions of code 
designed to do the same thing.