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This smacks of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. If we're afraid that people
by erik_seaberg 6y ago
This smacks of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. If we're afraid that people will want to write packages in Blub for some reason, and we refuse to accommodate Blub at all, we're just driving everyone to some other editor that embraces it.
- heintje_ghulam 6y agoI think the difference is that Emacs isn't a company, and it doesn't need to beat others in a competition, it just needs enough contributors to keep moving forward. Not everyone needs to use Emacs for Emacs to succeed in its goals.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoTrue, I was thinking of http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (where Lisp was Viaweb's "secret weapon"). And I'm worried about Emacs ending up with too small an audience of package maintainers to cover mainstream workplace use cases.