Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 3, 2021 12:58 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows by NYKevin
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To be honest, vim is so much closer to emacs that comparing them is more about which keys I press to get to an end of a line versus anything else. [Heck turn on all the bells and whistles and vim will out memory use than 'Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping' (EMACS)]. But in the end, I have seen more Linux people (from 60 year olds to 20 year olds) use vscode than emacs or vi in the last several years to edit everything from conf files to coding new things. I would not have ever expected that 30 years ago.

Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 3, 2021 13:36 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

> But in the end, I have seen more Linux people (from 60 year olds to 20 year olds) use vscode than emacs or vi in the last several years to edit everything from conf files to coding new things. I would not have ever expected that 30 years ago.

Because by any objective standard, VSCode is really good! It provides a very nice comprehensive, integrated, highly-customizable environment for what a substantial (possibly even a majority) of software developers these days are working on.

VSCode is the all-dancing everything that emacs was once derided for, with the significant advantage that it is implemented in a language that has a substantial developer mindshare (javascript) vs something that was a niche even in its heydey (ie lisp).

But making something so well integrated and polished takes a _lot_ of work. It's probably fair to say that between Google (ie the Chrome/Electron underpinnings) and Microsoft, more money has been invested into VS Code in the past 6 months than emacs has seen in four decades. Heck, the office supply budget for the VS Code team is probably larger than the FSF's annual spend.

Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 3, 2021 14:41 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

Try this: go to Github, click on any source file and press '.' (dot). This is Microsoft integrating its product, Emacs can't possibly beat that.