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Without trying to spark another editor war, here is a summary of characteristics:

uses more memory

has more features and is extensible via plugins

ported to nearly every operating system

was written by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation

uses less memory

has fewer features

found on nearly every Unix and Unix-like system

even it's creator doesn't use it anymore

have thousands of die-hard fans

use arcane keyboard shortcuts, making it nearly impossible for the untrained to actually type something (hint: use nano).

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