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As usual, all roads seem to lead back to emacs.
by angrycoder 16y ago
As usual, all roads seem to lead back to emacs.
- tree_of_item 16y agoWhat gives you this impression? The author uses Emacs, but Emacs is by no means the choice of most programmers.
- klanger 16y agoAccording to a recent clojure survey "Emacs ran away with it, actually moreso than I expected, in use by 70% all respondents." http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2010/06/07/Results+from+the+State+of+Clojure%2C+Summer+2010+Survey http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2010/06/07/Res...
- tree_of_item 16y agoWhat I got from that article: "I continue to maintain that broad acceptance and usage of Clojure will require that there be top-notch development environments for it that mere mortals can use and not be intimidated by...and IMO, while emacs is hugely capable, I think it falls down badly on a number of counts related to usability, community/ecosystem, and interoperability." But I was specifically speaking about the grandparent's post in reaction to this submission. What could be taken from this article to suggest that "all roads lead back to Emacs"? It strikes me as a very smug pro-Emacs comment that has nothing to do with the article besides the fact that it mentions Emacs at all.
- sbt 16y agoyes. emacs is pretty good while all the other alternatives are so half-baked. this goes for erlang as well. what remains to be seen is if somebody eventually decides to make a great editor for one (or more) of these languages without all the idiosyncrasies of emacs.