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Well, let's see what software engineers use Emacs. Donald Knuth. Author of "the art of computer programming" and many contributions in computer science. Linus
by iterativ 6y ago
Well, let's see what software engineers use Emacs.
Donald Knuth. Author of "the art of computer programming" and many contributions in computer science.
Linus Torvalds. Original author of Linux (the most widely used kernel) & git (most widely distributed version control). In fact, he wrote his own version of emacs. He doesn't do much, if at all, coding now.
Joe Armstrong. Author of Erlang.
Guido van Rossum. Author of Python.
Yukihiro Matsumoto. Author of Ruby.
Rich Hickey. Author of Clojure.
Andrei Alexandrescu. Author of D.
Xavier Leroy. Author of OCaml.
Michael Widenius. Author of MySQL & MariaDB.
Guy Steele. Co-author of Scheme.
Stephen Wolfram. Physicist, computer scientist & author of Mathematica.
Peter Norvig. Research director at Google & well known Lisper.
RMS. Well, original author of GCC, Emacs & the GNU system.
All of them, apparently, don't require one of those "powerful" IDEs.
- TAForObvReasons 6y agoThose developers by and large were active in software development before the creation of VSCode or IntelliJ. If you've already invested time and energy to learning the ins and outs of one tool, the hurdle to switch is large. VSCode would need to be 10x better for the seasoned veterans to justify switching. If it were only 2x better, arguably the investment would not be worth it, but it doesn't change the fact that VSCode would be 2x better than emacs.