Of course I know they load up a web browser but you would think that is something what Java people would do (in terms of over engineering and over use frameworks and fair game as I'm a Java developer).

I'm basing this on the original poster that thought it was funny that Emacs is fast/small. You don't think its ironic that a Java editor is small and fast given its history of being slow and bloated?

Well that is sort of like saying Emacs is written in Elisp. Its true a good portion of the editors are written in their own scripting language (js for atom, and elisp for emacs, and beanshell for jedit) but I believe the critical components that these tests test for are probably not.