Interesting comments, mostly from people who have been around the block a few times. Personally I'm young and I just picked up Emacs a few years ago. I'm still

Interesting comments, mostly from people who have been around the block a few times. Personally I'm young and I just picked up Emacs a few years ago. I'm still unashamedly in the evangelical phase, wanting to share it with everyone I meet. It's literally a gift from all the good deities combined. But I can see why it's not more popular. You need to be a programmer to make it even halfway usable. That's its power and its curse. Personally I think GNU Emacs is a dead end. If Emacs is to live on it needs to be rewritten from the ground up in Common Lisp, it needs to be multithreaded, and it needs to have default keybinds that target the average computer user; us wizards can change them with ease. I think Lem looks quite promising.