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This was super valuable as it showed me conclusively why Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in thei
by aj7 5y ago
This was super valuable as it showed me conclusively why Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in their careers.
- tharne 5y ago> Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in their careers This is false. There are plenty of new users. https://emacssurvey.org/2020/ https://emacssurvey.org/2020/ Emacs is not now or in the future ever going to have "mass appeal" and that's okay. It caters to a niche, intellectually curious developers who like tinkering for its own sake. If programming is just a job to you, that's totally fine. For a lot folks, programming is like accounting, a safe path to a decent paycheck. These folks will likely use VS Code and that's OK. Not every piece of software needs to "eat the world". Some software, like Emacs, can just be enjoyed by a community of dedicated users.
- NoGravitas 5y agoThe joke "Generally Not Used Except by Middle-Aged Computer Scientists" has been around for like 20 years, though.
- BeetleB 5y agoEmacs likely has more new users now than ever before. I'd wager the absolute number of users are clearly growing. There's an order of magnitude more Youtube videos, blog posts, etc than there were 10 years ago. Getting Emacs help via a Google search often failed me a decade ago. Now it's extremely rare that I don't find an answer.