Re:Emacs User Survey (2022)
by BeetleB on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:58AM
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> If your aim is to make Emacs more accessible for new users, this is not how you're going to get good answers
Although they say otherwise, it's pretty clear when you observe their behavior that while the devs do care about making it accessible to new users, it is not in their top 5 priorities.
And I'm almost 100% sure that it is not the goal of this survey.
> They should go talk to VSCode users instead
They really shouldn't. Only on HN do I keep seeing comparisons with VSCode. The reality is that a large percentage of Emacs users - perhaps a majority - do not use Emacs as an IDE and making Emacs a better VSCode would not benefit them.
As an example, take a look at the talks in prior Emacs Conferences and note the percentage of talks that have nothing to do with SW development.
Although they say otherwise, it's pretty clear when you observe their behavior that while the devs do care about making it accessible to new users, it is not in their top 5 priorities.
And I'm almost 100% sure that it is not the goal of this survey.
> They should go talk to VSCode users instead
They really shouldn't. Only on HN do I keep seeing comparisons with VSCode. The reality is that a large percentage of Emacs users - perhaps a majority - do not use Emacs as an IDE and making Emacs a better VSCode would not benefit them.
As an example, take a look at the talks in prior Emacs Conferences and note the percentage of talks that have nothing to do with SW development.