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The article more or less makes this precise comparison.

"Do everything in Emacs" isn't really so different from "Do everything in the browser."

Arguably, modern browsers are more heavyweight and complex at that. They certainly eat a hell of a lot more RAM than my Emacs ever does.

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True, But they also do much more things than Emacs does.

If you really believe that you haven't understood emacs at all.

Ironically, the only thing Emacs can't seem to do these days is be a browser. ;)

The xwidget_mvp branch has been merged into the emacs master branch about a month ago.

It allows you to embed GTK widgets INSIDE an emacs buffer, effectively allowing one to create actual GUIs inside of emacs.

This also allows you to embed a full webkit-based browser (with javascript support!) right into emacs, and use it like a regular browser.

Just clone the emacs repo, build it with gtk3 and xwidget support, and run 'M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url' to get a full-fledged browser with proper rendering right inside emacs.

https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/EmacsXembedScreenshot....

There's only one question that remains to be answered. Why?

Browsing through an environment that's integrated nicely, deeply configurable, and completely programmable. What else would you want as a programmer and an pc user?

Why not? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eww_%28web_browser%29

I don't believe there is any Javascript support, though, so you'll be out of luck for many modern pages...

Well, emacs certainly can be many things, if not all things. But is it? There is a difference.

Please make me understand!

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