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The biggest threat to Emacs is a number of hard to fix performance issues. Like rendering of very long lines. Luckily for Emacs other editors have their own per
by auganov 6y ago
The biggest threat to Emacs is a number of hard to fix performance issues. Like rendering of very long lines. Luckily for Emacs other editors have their own performance issues, but their architectures might make them more fixable.
The other issue is the display model. Rendering using browser technologies enables other editors to do things Emacs just can't.
I'm sure some gimmicks might bring in more users. But implicit in this kind of thinking is that Emacs is perfect as it is and with right marketing it will explode. I sincerely doubt this. The biggest problems are pretty fundamental.
- _ph_ 6y agoJust today I edited a file which basically consisted out of a line with almost 2 million characters, my emacs was basically unresponsive for a longer time. This amount of data shouldn't slow down a modern machine that badly.
- twblalock 6y agoHonestly it's the package management that is the problem. VS Code is also kinda slow, yet it's popular because it's so easy to discover and download plugins.
- d0mine 6y agoEmacs has packages too: M-x package-install Or install & configure in .emacs: (use-package projectile) # :ensure is enabled