> In some ways it is impressive that Emacs has managed to avoid being killed off in a massive rewrite attempting to chase other text editors. No point chasing

> In some ways it is impressive that Emacs has managed to avoid being killed off in a massive rewrite attempting to chase other text editors. No point chasing when you’re the leader. It would have to happen in a fork, and a fork attempting it would run into all the problems Richard Stallman identifies when these things are proposed (and rejected). It’s not like they’re unaware that some decades old critical components need to be redone. But this is emacs, not a FAANG throwaway, so that kind of work has constraints and expectations and standards to meet. Chunking garbage at it because emotions isn’t an option there.