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Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad, a blog post by Gábor Nyéki

There is that famous story from the 1990s about the man who was a Lisper but could not afford any of the commercial Lisps, so he deployed message routing for a German air traffic control system in a headless instance of Emacs. But one is that CPython has to box every integer, float, boolean, etc., which means more time spent allocating and deallocating memory rather than serving HTTP requests. But were it not for planned obsolescence (and, to be fair, the enormous improvements in car safety in the last couple decades), old hardware with minimal maintenance could still perform many tasks effectively.

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