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> VSCode is winning the editors war In what sense is there a "war"? That's a serious question. Emacs, VS Code, and quite a few of the other popular editors are
by bachmeier 6y ago
> VSCode is winning the editors war
In what sense is there a "war"? That's a serious question. Emacs, VS Code, and quite a few of the other popular editors are open source. You can download them and use them. I have both Emacs and VS Code on my machine, and I use both of them, but for different purposes.
Now, if you wanted to talk about a war between open source and traditional closed-up-tight, walled-garden commercial software, I could get on board. It's really hard for me to understand your framing when you have freely available products that are not in any way exclusive.
On your other point, if I were to speculate, I'd say VS Code's main advantage is that it doesn't have a 1970's graphical interface. Port GNU Emacs to Monaco, give it some good default settings, and see what happens to adoption.
- pierrebai 6y agoWar as a metaphor? I mean, have you ever seen two editors battling out in the field? No. The war is in usage % among users. VSCode is the most widely used editor by far now, reaching over 51%. [1] Usage converts into further growth, having more and better support from extension developers. [1] https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-studio-code/ https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-st...
- jrockway 6y agoThere is no war. VS Code created the language server protocol, which works great inside Emacs. VS Code's existence has made Emacs even better. If it were a war, they'd just DDoS gnu.org or something, not make Emacs better.