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> As a user, I don’t care about the dev’s challenge of supporting multiple OS’s As a user I do care about that. A big selling point of vscode versus emacs for
by maximus-decimus 5y ago
> As a user, I don’t care about the dev’s challenge of supporting multiple OS’s
As a user I do care about that. A big selling point of vscode versus emacs for me is that it works "natively" on both Windows and Linux. Finally, I don't need to run a VM just to run emacs. I tried all the other alternatives like Msys2 and cygwin, but they're like their own circle of hell as soon as you need to run executables and all the extensions assume you're on Linux.
- pseudalopex 5y agoThey didn't say they don't care about results. The VS Code developers worked to make it what it is. Sublime Text shows it isn't about the technology. Emacs is just from a culture where non Unix and proprietary operating systems are 2nd class.
- maximus-decimus 5y agoI would argue using Electron encourages a culture of making your software cross-platform. I am a firm believer in making good things easy and bad things hard.
- pjmlp 5y agoI wonder how I used to run Emacs on Windows NT/2000 without a VM.