Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
by BeetleB on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:29PM
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> I took a look at the EmacsConf talks and didn't see anything in particular that stood out. Mind pointing something out?
That most of the talks are not relevant for SW Development, and VSCode is likely not the correct thing to point existing Emacs users to. Looking at the talks from last year, is VSCode good for:
- Writing novels
- Produce sheet music
- Editing audio files' metadata and tying it to producing a web site.
- All things Org mode
- Roam-like wiki
- Gaming
- Creating fonts support for native American languages
- Reading mail/newsgroups
- Using it as a computer algebra system
- Interacting with external programs like the browser
Note: I do 3-4 of the above regularly.
I honestly have not checked if VSCode can do these things - will be happy to be informed.
That most of the talks are not relevant for SW Development, and VSCode is likely not the correct thing to point existing Emacs users to. Looking at the talks from last year, is VSCode good for:
- Writing novels
- Produce sheet music
- Editing audio files' metadata and tying it to producing a web site.
- All things Org mode
- Roam-like wiki
- Gaming
- Creating fonts support for native American languages
- Reading mail/newsgroups
- Using it as a computer algebra system
- Interacting with external programs like the browser
Note: I do 3-4 of the above regularly.
I honestly have not checked if VSCode can do these things - will be happy to be informed.