If anything I see more love for Emacs over the years, not less. From Spacemacs to DoomEmacs to all the vim users switching to Emacs+evil-mode. There's LSP sup

If anything I see more love for Emacs over the years, not less. From Spacemacs to DoomEmacs to all the vim users switching to Emacs+evil-mode. There's LSP support since a while too. The Emacs ecosystem is alive and very well. It's in much better shape than it used to be. I used to live inside JetBrains' IntelliJ IDE, starting at IntelliJ version 4 (yup, I'm that old) and I'd probably use IntelliJ again if I was forced to work in a nonsensical Java codebase, full of boilerplate, impossible to navigate because it became a gigantic mess of spaghetti code. But that is my vision of hell. Emacs is something else. My custom config is about 3 000 lines of elisp code, written over the years. About anything I want Emacs to do, I can have it do it. Dunno, last thing I did was configure my 3-ways merge/diff environment: didn't like the default, didn't like the layout, didn't like the colors. Dived into some elisp code and I changed the layout to better match my very wide screen. Another quick hack: when asking for the list of recent buffers/files opened, I wanted, for those in version control, to see how many commits they had (to quickly find hot spots)... Some elisp code to modify "counsel", one shell script. Boom, done. I've done that years ago. Still working flawlessly. I've written a plug-in for IntelliJ back in the days. It's horrible. Also if we compare Emacs to IDEs, it's the most lightweight, and by very far. It was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" and it was funny joke in the 90s but today 8 MB fits in the L1 cache or so. It's not swapping anymore (even if it's a bit more than 8 MB, granted). I'm using the native-comp branch of Emacs since it came out and stuff like burntsushi's ripgrep directly integrated in Emacs. It is not just a bit fast, but incredibly fast. Sure there are gotchas. You have to dig a bit into elisp to fix the usual suspects (like long lines making it slow: it's all configurable). But you're in control of absolutely everything. You have the source code, use it when you need it. Now I know some are using Emacs with the default setup and the default keybindings and without knowing / using any elisp. I'm no elisp guru but I think Emacs only begins to show its power once you being to use elisp to tailor Emacs to your way of working. That's the thing: you adapt Emacs to your way of doing things, not the other way around. I don't think there's any need to "make it popular again". It is popular enough and it is thriving.