Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 8, 2020 20:10 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by giraffedata
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

Yes, you do need a critical mass. I think emacs still has that critical mass.

Also, really popular open-source projects can have plenty of quirks and missing pieces, depending on the governance of the project. Both Gnome and KDE are extremely popular, and yet from my viewpoint, they are unusable because of quirks... the direction of those projects just doesn't suit the way I work. I guess the quirks are in the eye of the beholder in this case.