This is not at all fair or accurate in terms of general architecture. The quote from Daniel Colascione describes some implementation details that can and will b

This is not at all fair or accurate in terms of general architecture. The quote from Daniel Colascione describes some implementation details that can and will be improved. The same Daniel Colascione is very passionate about Emacs and spends a lot of his free time working on it. Moreover, you did not mention any of the things that make Emacs great. Its mode-based buffer-centric architecture comes from the Lisp Machines, maps well to countless disparate tasks and has certainly stood the test of time. Emacs is essentially the closest thing we have to a Lisp Machine. Atom and VS Code on the other hand are ad-hoc editors on top of environments that can only be said to re-implement old, dead-end ideas and do so badly. I'm not sure why you mentioned Gosling, if not to mislead, since he's never as far as I know been a Lisper (Mocklisp is a mockery of Lisp) and his contributions to GNU Emacs -- besides inspiring Stallman to come up with something better -- were minimal and very quickly rewritten or removed. Gosling's influence to the architecture (Lisp Machines, Symbolics) and evolution of GNU Emacs has been NIL.