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emacs is Lindy. VS Code will go extinct before Emacs. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect)
by tome 7y ago
emacs is Lindy. VS Code will go extinct before Emacs.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect)
- azinman2 7y agoWe don’t know when vscode will or won’t go extinct. It’s less distinct than other similar editors in comparison to emacs, so the switching cost is a lot lower. But my point being isn’t that vscode will somehow be “the great winner,” but rather that new things will come and continue to replace the old. Emacs has/had the option of changing with the times. They’ve opted out of that. So most newcomers will opt out of emacs, and thus it’ll slowly die out.