Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs
by ashtonkem on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:44AM
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What language? Some languages have Emacs usage in the range of 0%, such as Java and C#.
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That is very fair question. In my experience of html, css, js/ts, C#, VB, java, php, c/c++ and python I have never seen any emacs users in 20 years. I think it is really a language and region cut going maybe back to the universities supporting lisp or something else
Maybe it’s a region thing. Back when I did Python it was fairly popular, but VS Code appears to have largely taken over in that language, much to me continual confusion.
Most of the other languages you listed have extremely poor Emacs integration, both for cultural reasons (C# devs tended to be on Windows), and because some of those languages are so dominated by other IDEs that nobody bothered to write a good emacs extension. Java is a great example of this; the IntelliJ experience in Java is just so good, nobody managed to come anywhere close in Emacs, which created a self reinforcing cycle.