Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript

Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by skissane on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:58PM (#26483680)

> Emacs and vi are both mere footnotes compared to VSCode in terms of market and mind share

According to StackOverflow's 2019 developer survey [0], 50.7% of editors used VSCode, 25.4% used Vim. So that doesn't really support your claim that vi is a "mere footnote". 25% of market share isn't 50%, but it is still decent and more than a mere "footnote".

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by blacktriangle on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:56AM (#26490423)

Wow even Emacs doing better than I would have thought at 4.5%.

People overestimate the value of massive community and apply a winner takes all mentality too often. You don't need a giant community, and almost by definition giant communities tend to have a lower average user quality leading to lower quality of libraries and support (looking at you JS ecosystem).

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by anthk on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:29AM (#26491720)

This. And those Mac zealot Gen-Zers know shit about what happened in late 90's and early 00's where people used vim and Emacs like Crazy, specially under X because Emacs were really affordable and fast under a mouse while keeping keyboard bindings.

They think the world revolutes around them with JS and hip editors while in the end they are the utter minority in serious IT/dev environments.

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