It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, bu

It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, but it's just not something that matters in this kind of strategic product discussion (and thinking it's comparable is just a signal it's not worth engaging imo). There are many reasons why VSCode is dominant and emacs isn't, similarly there are many reasons slack failed to compete (even after taking out a full page ad pretending to be apple before suing Microsoft). If you're going to pretend to be apple, you better be as good. If you're going to mock competition you better hope you're apple and not netscape [0][1]. I too think Slack is a great product, but that's not enough. Slack needed to expand into a more competitive offering and they failed to do that. [0]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/ [1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n_581a0e66e4b01f610e396815 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n...