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More like someone who works on their own car. Yeah, they lose the occasional weekend to the maintenance, but they love that they've had the same car for 35 yea
by rout39574 3y ago
More like someone who works on their own car. Yeah, they lose the occasional weekend to the maintenance, but they love that they've had the same car for 35 years.
However with Emacs, there are a few thousand other people working on the car too, so despite the fact it's the volkswagen beetle you bought in 1972 and your butt shape is indelibly formed in the cockpit, it has _also_ got electric power train, full self driving and JATOs. :)
- bborud 3y agoI used Emacs every day for 28 years. Until I got really tired of having to put it up on the jacks, as it were, for a weekend every now and then. In order to deal with the fact that everyone who works on Emacs seems to think everyone else is just as enthusiastic as them about spending their weekends fiddling with Emacs. It isn't for me. At least not anymore. Dealing with Emacs is a lot like dealing with software written in Python: probably great if you really like going trough long descriptions of how to get something to work. Not so great if you are more concerned with using the tools rather than fiddling with the tools.