Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by pjmlp on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:57AM
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Younger self used to Borland and Microsoft IDEs, when going into Xenix, DG/UX and frieds, "where is my IDE?!?".
The TA on my 2nd year university pissed off with everyone of us using Emacs as Notepad, instead of spending one hour talking about Pascal, decided to teach us how to use Emacs properly.
I was one of the few that kept with it, although I ended up moving into XEmacs, which had a much better experience.
The large majority of my fellow students decided to adopt Joe, JED instead.
After university and after a couple of years on the job market eventually all of us moved back into IDE land.
So not sure what Emacs can really do to still cater to younger generations, if even for us it was seen as something to endure on university computer systems, back when options were quite limited.
The TA on my 2nd year university pissed off with everyone of us using Emacs as Notepad, instead of spending one hour talking about Pascal, decided to teach us how to use Emacs properly.
I was one of the few that kept with it, although I ended up moving into XEmacs, which had a much better experience.
The large majority of my fellow students decided to adopt Joe, JED instead.
After university and after a couple of years on the job market eventually all of us moved back into IDE land.
So not sure what Emacs can really do to still cater to younger generations, if even for us it was seen as something to endure on university computer systems, back when options were quite limited.