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How many daily users do vim and emacs have? How many daily users does VSCode have?

• mosselman 4y ago
  How many people believed the earth was flat at one point? To be clear, I don’t care either way about vim or vscode. I use vim mode in vscode right now, but I might use something else later. All I care about is being able to work pleasantly. What I meant is that numbers of people doing something is not proof for something being better. For instance: How many people listen to Justin Bieber and how many listen to The Doors?
  • fastball 4y ago
    The claim was not that VSCode is a better editor than vim or emacs, but rather that "VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering". To me, the tool that matches that description is the one which most increases the productivity level for the most people. Emacs or Vim might be better at increasing the productivity of a single individual (super huge might here – I personally found VSCode improved my productivity much more than vim ever did), but once you multiply that out by the number of people impacted, I doubt there is much contest.
• meindnoch 4y ago
  Thankfully neither emacs nor vim have built-in tracking, so we may never know.
• NateEag 4y ago
  The closest thing I know to an actual source for this is the StackOverflow developer survey. 2022 edition says 74% of respondents use VSCode regularly, 23% use Vim regularly, and 4% use Emacs regularly. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...