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Re:Emacs Timeline by mplanchard on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:05PM (#32336659)
Realistically, there’s not much emacs can’t do, including integrating with copilot[1]. I think it’s niche isn’t system administration, but people who have the time, energy, and interest to really invest in their tools. Its configurability is second to none, and it’s not going anywhere. Emacs will still be around long after vscode is forgotten, and it’s nice to know that the time I spend learning my editor won’t go to waste when some big corp decides to up and leave, or the programming zeitgeist moves on to the shiny new thing.

[1]: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el

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Re:Emacs Timeline by scombridae on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:14PM (#32336719)
Emacs will still be around long after vscode is forgotten

Neither antecedent (vscode dies) nor consequent (emacs survives) is at all assured.

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Re:Emacs Timeline by umanwizard on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:52PM (#32337432)
Nothing lasts forever, but Emacs has enough momentum behind it that I'd be shocked if it dies within our lifetime (assuming there's no general collapse of technological civilization, of course). Even if the FSF were to become defunct, enough people care about Emacs and are involved with it that somebody will continue developing it.

VSCode's development is so totally dominated by one company that it's hard to imagine it continuing to go strong if they decided to discontinue it (Cf. the fate of Atom).

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Re:Emacs Timeline by a_e_k on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:17PM (#32337580)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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Re:Emacs Timeline by acmdas on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:39PM (#32337351)
History rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.
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Re:Emacs Timeline by samatman on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:59PM (#32337476)
Visual C++ turns 30 next February.

So maybe there's an exception for tools with Visual in the name.

And all of Office.

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Re:Emacs Timeline by mplanchard on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:48PM (#32336989)
True! I guess there’s only one way to find out.
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