UI: Electron, of course.
Json to represent the edit buffer in RAM. Each utf8 code point base64 encoded, in a json array, it itself, as a blob, base64 encoded. Now, before you complain that that is gonna blow up the data too much, don’t forget that 1. “Ram is cheap” and 2. “gzipped base64 is about the same size as binary”. So, of course, we’ll gzip the data in RAM.
Plugins should be JavaScript, as should be self-evident. And you’ll need a few installations of python (both 2 and 3) and node.js (each in its own docker container, obviously) to glue it all together and provide reproduceability.
With some care and work, it’ll run even on a modest machine taking up merely 60GB of disk, 32GB of RAM, a 4090ti GPU, and 8 CPU cores.
Every key press should be passed through an LLM, to add some intelligence to the editor. The user will, of course, supply a ChatGPT api key when they register for their mandatory myNewEmacs.ai account that they’ll need to subscribe to the editor for only the cost of a few lattes a month.
It is 2024, after all. One must use modern tools and technologies.