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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by mnd999 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:37AM (#29107741)
That’s a terrible analogy. An F1 car isn’t flexible, it’s highly specialised.

And there are roughly 20 F1 drivers on the planet at a given time, are you suggesting the total audience for emacs is about 20?

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by FredPret on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:29AM (#29108413)
I know right, are there actually 20 people who want to use Emacs!?
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by donio on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:17PM (#29111384)
Yeah, that sounds about right. And not to mention that with the 5K+ packages currently on MELPA we each had to write 250 of them. It's rough.
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by FredPret on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:03PM (#29112502)
At least you had Emacs!
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by medo-bear on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:40AM (#29108549)
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by asah on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:07PM (#29108891)
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by npmaile on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:08PM (#29110577)
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by masterof0 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:32PM (#29111538)
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