brain
Last modified on April 15, 2022
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modularity
I think it can be really good. Fairly related to compositionality. Will have to hash out what I think the difference is there.
♏️ emacs gets a lot of its power from its modularity. Packages are just little pieces of code– you can add/remove them into your ecosystem as you please. As opposed to proprietary software, where you may be much more limited in the customization that you can do…one piece of functionality for Evernote might not carry over to VSCode might not carry over to your web browser. etc.
^it’s beautiful chaos sometimes, though! Modules designed by tens of thousands of independent humans are bound to be overlapping, redundant, and sometimes confusing to “glue together”…
But luckily emacs has a great community that has helped smooth out the rough edges between packages, and even make them work together to make emacs a better place.
But….is the brain modular? I think it might not quite work that way.