I love Emacs, but you need to be a retro minded programmer to enjoy it, that means you have to prefer code as your user interface, because in Emacs, code is the

I love Emacs, but you need to be a retro minded programmer to enjoy it, that means you have to prefer code as your user interface, because in Emacs, code is the main UX, you're basically living inside a running Lisp command shell. Now honestly, I don't think it needs to become more popular, I think it just needs to continue to attract enough people that are smart enough to work on future versions and maintain the popular extensions, and that's all.