[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[Ben New]

Tim Bowden wrote:

> I like java but- downside (Java and/ or jedit):
> 1. Try running a java app on a low powered pc. 

Define "low powered" I guess... Try running anything on a 486/sx33!

Of course (and this goes with my reply to James Devenish as well) a Java 
app will be necessarily slower than the equivalent natively-compiled 
app. It goes without saying that due to the extra layer of the Java VM, 
there will be a slow-down. Therefore there will be a point in "power" 
where a java app won't run smoothly but a natively compiled equivalent will.

> 2. Jedit requires a GUI. vim doesn't

well the original question was about "mouse-centric editors" so I 
assumed a GUI was part of that :-)



Ben