> Sometimes people who use computers ask me why I would use something as “bloated” as Emacs for text editing. Usually they remark that Emacs is a hold-over from a by-gone era, much too large compared to editors like “vi”, and that they are quite content using a variant of vi or some Notepad-like editor.

This feels like a very out of date sentiment to me. I know a decade ago this was the perception, and well know the "good operating system, bad text editor" joke you'd see on Slashdot or whatever.

But nowadays while Emacs clocks in at a dozen MB, it's still smaller than what I'd consider "light weight" editors like ST3 and Atom, and minuscule compared to the likes of IntelliJ, Eclipse, or XCode.