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

[arthur miller]

Imagine all the vulnerabilities brought in by all the other libraries Emacs uses, and Emacs uses quite many. I don't see difference there.

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

For the rest of your questions: answer should probably be self-evident: less processes means less resources used, faster response at runtime and programmatic control usually means more flexibility. For same reasons, I wish even dired was not usin ls program but was built on directory-files instead.

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.

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Från: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>

Datum: 2020-11-26 20:12 (GMT+01:00)

Till: emacs-devel@gnu.org

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

On Thu 26 Nov 2020 at 09:27, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 06:25:10AM +0100, Arthur Miller wrote:
>> Why is it desirable to view jpegs in Emacs rather then run
>> insert-your-favourite-image-viewer-here? Or why is it desirable to
>> render html in emacs rather then run Firefox?

why does this need libraries instead of programs?

>> For me: less processes,

why is it a good thing?

>> less switching between applications, nice to have things in Emacs
>> buffers.

why does this need libraries instead of programs?

> Imagine being able to say "org-store-link" at a specific frame in
> a video. Or at specific (x, y) coordinates in a frame in said
> video.

why does this need libraries instead of programs?

> Just imagine :-)

imagine all the extra vulnerabilities linked into the emacs process

  $ ldd emacs | wc -l
  94

hmm, that is a lost cause already

libraries are easier to use but programs run in separate processes and
can be extra sandboxed