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Nope. I used Emacs from 1999-2016, and just switched to Atom. A bunch of React/ES2015/Flow/StandardJS/eslint tools exist for Atom but not yet for Emacs. I us

Nope. I used Emacs from 1999-2016, and just switched to Atom. A bunch of React/ES2015/Flow/StandardJS/eslint tools exist for Atom but not yet for Emacs. I used Emacs for everything -- email, IRC, coding. It's Atom that made me switch to ctrl-t (find file in project by partial filename match), by the way.

zeveb 10y ago
> A bunch of React/ES2015/Flow/StandardJS/eslint tools exist for Atom but not yet for Emacs. Yet another reason I mistrust the JavaScript ecosystem: it's built by a bunch of folks who don't understand why emacs (and vim) are great. If they don't get that, how can I trust them to get anything about software architecture? > It's Atom that made me switch to ctrl-t (find file in project by partial filename match), by the way. It's C-p f with emacs projectile & prelude.
- cjbprime 10y ago
  There are some other reasons I dislike emacs. It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO.
  - zeveb 10y ago
    > It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. It's annoying, yes, but not a huge issue. > Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO. It's not great, but it's better than anything else out there. Elisp is far preferable to JavaScript, dynamic scope makes a lot of sense in an editor, the ability to run in a terminal is fundamental, extreme extensibility is key in an editor. Everything we do on computers other than playing games consists of reading or editing text: there should be no reason to directly run any other program other than one's editor. emacs's only failing is that it doesn't have a full-fledged replacement for Firefox built in.
    - cjbprime 10y ago
      > It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. Yeah, I first heard that 15 years ago. It's not happening.

zeveb 10y ago

> A bunch of React/ES2015/Flow/StandardJS/eslint tools exist for Atom but not yet for Emacs. Yet another reason I mistrust the JavaScript ecosystem: it's built by a bunch of folks who don't understand why emacs (and vim) are great. If they don't get that, how can I trust them to get anything about software architecture? > It's Atom that made me switch to ctrl-t (find file in project by partial filename match), by the way. It's C-p f with emacs projectile & prelude.

cjbprime 10y ago
There are some other reasons I dislike emacs. It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO.
- zeveb 10y ago
  > It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail. It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. It's annoying, yes, but not a huge issue. > Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO. It's not great, but it's better than anything else out there. Elisp is far preferable to JavaScript, dynamic scope makes a lot of sense in an editor, the ability to run in a terminal is fundamental, extreme extensibility is key in an editor. Everything we do on computers other than playing games consists of reading or editing text: there should be no reason to directly run any other program other than one's editor. emacs's only failing is that it doesn't have a full-fledged replacement for Firefox built in.
  - cjbprime 10y ago
    > It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. Yeah, I first heard that 15 years ago. It's not happening.