RE: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>]

On Thu 26 Nov 2020 at 19:34, arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
> Imagine all the vulnerabilities brought in by all the other libraries
> Emacs uses, and Emacs uses quite many. I don't see difference there.

exactly, so many libraries (i already wrote that my emacs has about 94)
in the same process written in memory unsafe language

also not only vulnerabilities but also memory leaks

> If you are aware of some special vulnerability in libmpv, then please
> rapport it to the project so they can fix it.

if you are aware of some special tumor, then please go to a doctor?

i am talking about prevention

what about not smoking in the first place?

> For the rest of your questions: answer should probably be
> self-evident: less processes means less resources used,

it's 2020 and we want to avoid processes for that reason?  strange

emacs consumes all available memory easily quite often, i don't see any
improvement on this front even with so many libraries

> response at runtime and programmatic control usually means more
> flexibility.

yes, i said that libs are easier to use

> For same reasons, I wish even dired was not usin ls program but was
> built on directory-files instead.

i wish more of emacs was written in memory safe elisp too

but this is a different question altogether

> By the way, I hope you can formulate yourself ess passive aggressive
> in future. I perceive your mail as something belonging rather to
> discussions on twitch chatt or reddit at best.

sorry that it comes that way

it's a shame that you attack me instead of discussed ideas