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It is a bit late to be arguing about the IP in Emacs. Only 4.5% of developers use Emacs today. More than 50% use VSCode. See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/
by flowerlad 7y ago
It is a bit late to be arguing about the IP in Emacs. Only 4.5% of developers use Emacs today. More than 50% use VSCode. See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-popular-development-environments https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
- NotCamelCase 7y agoYou don't really expect to find many Emacs users on a platform where 30% of developers uses Notepad++ though, do you? :) I personally wouldn't.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y agoSigh. Many years ago, I wrote tens of thousands of lines of code in Emacs, wasted many hours in elisp macros, etc. Nowadays Notepad++ is OK by me.
- NotCamelCase 7y agoI don't think I wrote more than 20 lines of code in Emacs, and all my previous attempts to learn it properly have died off boredom. So, I'm not even the kind to stick to it, but I know some who do and you won't find many of them on StackOverflow taking surveys.
- esotericn 7y ago4.5% of developers is a bloody enormous number. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps half a million. I'd imagine it's fewer than that, but still, that really is a big deal.
- jefft255 7y agoI think your link is more of a flagrant example of sample bias than anything else. I like Visual studio code; but I'd be really curious what the real numbers are! My guess is that Visual Studio actually wins.