Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
by agumonkey on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:00AM
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If you find emacs hard to extend then i hope you never use eclipse, more on that later.
Part of the problem you raise kinda comes from the newfound popularity of emacs, people started more projects on top of emacs and now we have a paradox of choice.
That said emacs core is pretty stable, even though there an acceleration in new ideas there too, it's not breakage inducing.
About ease of extension, in emacs you can add functions, menus, buttons, libs in 15 seconds. That's less time than it takes Eclipse to "create" an empty plugin project.
emacs is not the easiest (or the neatest or any -est) but relatively speaking, it's still a good thing.
Part of the problem you raise kinda comes from the newfound popularity of emacs, people started more projects on top of emacs and now we have a paradox of choice.
That said emacs core is pretty stable, even though there an acceleration in new ideas there too, it's not breakage inducing.
About ease of extension, in emacs you can add functions, menus, buttons, libs in 15 seconds. That's less time than it takes Eclipse to "create" an empty plugin project.
emacs is not the easiest (or the neatest or any -est) but relatively speaking, it's still a good thing.