Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 7, 2020 12:17 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by dvdeug
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

Those 95% not using Emacs are not going to use it because of a switch from elisp to Scheme. Both are super-obscure languages today.

Honestly, Emacs would probably be in a better place if RMS didn't have any say.

Great support, and lots of cool new tools

Posted May 11, 2020 19:47 UTC (Mon) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

> Honestly, Emacs would probably be in a better place if RMS didn't have any say.

Emacs is his baby, and he cared for it his whole life. And he still does: I had a reproducible crash a few years ago. It took one hour for him to send me a first patch that fixed the bug. And after one day of discussion on the mailing list the root cause was found and fixed. No vendor does that.

For me, the amazing thing is that emacs got a lot more momentum thanks to great tools like org-mode, magit, ivy/avy/helm, pdftools, org-ref that were not around ten years ago.