Making Emacs popular again

Posted May 26, 2020 18:30 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by jnorden
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

> Free software, by its very nature, *can't* become extinct. Even if current trends/fads mean that there is a lull in the number of people using Gnu emacs today, the source code will still be available for future generations to discover and use.
Why would future generations use it?

Sure, even now there are people who now resurrect old IBM mainframes for fun, but this doesn't mean that the old mainframe programming is in any way alive.

Like it or not, tool development is a Red Queen's race - you have to run just to be able to keep up. Emacs code editing ability is already kinda borderline compared to more modern tools, and it's only going to get worse.