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Emacs will still be around long after vscode is forgotten Neither antecedent (vscode dies) nor consequent (emacs survives) is at all assured.
by scombridae 4y ago
Emacs will still be around long after vscode is forgotten
Neither antecedent (vscode dies) nor consequent (emacs survives) is at
all assured.
- a_e_k 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- mplanchard 4y agoTrue! I guess there’s only one way to find out.
- acmdas 4y agoHistory rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.
- samatman 4y agoVisual C++ turns 30 next February. So maybe there's an exception for tools with Visual in the name. And all of Office.
- School-Cotton 4y agoNothing lasts forever, but Emacs has enough momentum behind it that I'd be shocked if it dies within our lifetime (assuming there's no general collapse of technological civilization, of course). Even if the FSF were to become defunct, enough people care about Emacs and are involved with it that somebody will continue developing it. VSCode's development is so totally dominated by one company that it's hard to imagine it continuing to go strong if they decided to discontinue it (Cf. the fate of Atom).