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Overtaken how? Download size? Startup time? Ubiquitous availability? Number of kernel hackers who use it as their daily driver? What's your metric?
by rlpb 4y ago
Overtaken how? Download size? Startup time? Ubiquitous availability? Number of kernel hackers who use it as their daily driver? What's your metric?
- jshzglr 4y agoRelax and open your eyes.
- wruza 4y agoNot a fan of vscode (or emacs, which it “has overtaken”, not vim), but I think it fits OP’s first paragraph.
- darthrupert 4y agoPopularity, features, quality. I still use Emacs myself but I'm not fucking blind.
- worthless-trash 4y agoMemory usage and CPU time ! Heyooo!
- jhbadger 4y agoI remember when Emacs was viewed as requiring a lot of resources (in the early 1990s) and I remember the sysadmin of our shared UNIX system scolding us if we had more than one emacs process running (as opposed to opening multiple files in different buffers).
- groovy2shoes 4y agoThe old joke was that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, eight megs is nothing these days.