Let me tell you about my knives:

-A swiss army knife that I always carry, for small fixes, opening packages & bottles (the scissors are amazing).

-A small foldable knife for slightly heavier duty or eating on the go.

-A bigger foldable knife for outdoors, camping, ang general purpose work.

-A rescue knife I keep in an emergency kit, with cord cutter and glass breaker.

-A huge chef knife for general cooking.

-A small cooking knife for cutting veggies precisely.

-A small fixed-blade outdoor knife with scandinavian grind, solid, easy to sharpen, and very precise for things such as wood carving.

-A bigger outdoor knife in stainless steel.

-A relatively cheap, thick and huge carbon steel survival knife, which is extremely though but require taking care as to not rust.

-A less cheap huge carbon survival knife because I like toys after all.

-A little hobby knife for crafts and very precise work.

All of these tools do the same basic thing (cutting), yet aside from that and being made in some kind of steel (ceramic knives are bad), all of them have no common attributes, and they are not appropriate for the same kind of work.

And cutting is much, much simpler than writing code :)

Thanks for reading my blog.

Do you use a different computer for each editing task too?

The VM/CMS approach to computing?

That's a sophism, sorry.

Your spiel about knives on the other hand was a masterstroke of intellectual discourse.

I am more of an axe guy myself, though I reckon I rarely use them for cooking :)

Oh yes, my favorite tool by far is actually a small hatchet. You can do almost every life-or-death things a knife do with one. Properly sharpened, the head absolutely can be used for roughly cutting veggies and shaving very thin timber from logs.

I for one am happy that PSPad takes less than half a second to launch and has a memory footprint of less than 10MB. If I wanted a fancy IDE with perfect syntax highlighting, I wouldn't be using PSPad. I have other tools for that. There's a space for editors that are more complex than Notepad and less complex than your average IDE, and PSPad fits right into that space.

My editor supports LSP, takes 400 ms to load and uses less than 1mb of memory (300mb+ when LSP is active) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My experience with LSP (gopls specifically) in Emacs has been abysmal. It makes navigation even slower, opening files sometimes takes a second or two, but the worst issue is frequent crashing. lsp-mode with gopls is the only plugin I've used that crashes Emacs altogether. I've never lost much work thanks to autosave, but to say it was annoying is an understatement. Since I disabled both a few weeks ago, crashes stopped entirely.

I probably should open an issue about it, but with the complexity of the entire stack I'm not sure what component is responsible, and frankly didn't have time to dig into it.

So I'm glad that simple editors still exist that don't have LSP integration. There's a lot that can be accomplished with plain old ctags and grep.