As Daniel Colascione ('quotemstr' around these parts) said [1]:

> GNU Emacs is an old-school C program emulating a 1980s Symbolics Lisp Machine emulating an old-fashioned Motif-style Xt toolkit emulating a 1970s text terminal emulating a 1960s teletype. Compiling Emacs is a challenge. Adding modern rendering features to the redisplay engine is a miracle.

Emacs owns its main loop because, damnit, it created one before it was cool.

Hats off to any heroes who would manage to drag it, kicking and screaming, into this millennium.

[1] https://gist.github.com/ghosty141/c93f21d6cd476417d4a9814eb7...