> Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Em

> Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Emacs. I use Emacs as my daily driver. Your comment feels very much like from someone who hasn't realized the true powers of Emacs-Lisp. Even if someone doesn't hack in Elisp, once they discover power packages like Org mode or Magit, they will know right away that there's no competition for those out there (vim, Atom, VS Code, etc). > For years, James Gosling, author of the first version of Emacs that ran on Unix (the ancestor of GNU Emacs), has been begging people to stop using Emacs. Even if that's the case, what's the point he's trying to make? Why? How does that matter to folks who are using Emacs today, and know it first hand that it's the best hackable text buffer engine out there?