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Emacs is also very old, rooted in antiquity, and has cruft that really needs to be jettisoned. What prevents us from creating copyleft alternatives to Emacs th
by deafpolygon 3y ago
Emacs is also very old, rooted in antiquity, and has cruft that really needs to be jettisoned. What prevents us from creating copyleft alternatives to Emacs that are rooted in a modern paradigm?
- nequo 3y agoWhat prevents us is probably the willingness to put in the hours and the coordination to do so. It is not easy to write an alternative that improves on it but is also capable of running Org and Magit which are two nontrivial packages that make people stick with Emacs.