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Emacs and VIM use has actually been going down since the 90s as a percentage of the developer community The quality of the developer community seems to hav

Emacs and VIM use has actually been going down since the 90s as a percentage of the developer community The quality of the developer community seems to have gone down since the 90s. Maybe the OP should have stated "Eventually every great developer's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position." At least, this has been my experience. live programming and rich editing experiences is the future I was previously assured that VPLs were the future.

seanmcdirmid 14y ago
>The quality of the developer community seems to have gone down since the 90s. Maybe the OP should have stated "Eventually every great developer's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position." At least, this has been my experience. To quote Jack Churchill (during WII) "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed." > I was previously assured that VPLs were the future. They are. Its just that we are getting the VPL features that we want (live programming and rich editing experiences) in editors for our textual languages instead.
nicholassmith 14y ago
"The quality of the developer community seems to have gone down since the 90s." Really? Can you back this up? As it seems to me the community is more engaged, productive and delivering high quality code. Yes, there's a lot more bad code as well, but that seems to be proportional to the increase in developers.
glomph 14y ago
And in my day penny sweats only cost a penny!