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Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by sexyman48 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:51AM (#45656560)
That he burned 11,000 words on his text editor tells you why emacs users are unemployable.
Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by dimitar on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:01PM (#45657424)
I'm an employed emacs user and more than half of my team also uses emacs
Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by _benj on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:28AM (#45657017)
Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s
Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by sexyman48 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:46AM (#45657219)
employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to

Your words, not mine. But gene propagation is up there, and steady wages is a sufficient if not necessary condition for that to happen.

Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by vkazanov on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:59AM (#45657400)
Never in my 20 years of programming, data engineering, engineering management of games, search engines, dating apps and machine learning systems I had a problem of people not wanting to hire me because I prefered Emacs (and linux).

In fact, in was the opposite.

So what are you even talking about?

Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by jsonBorn on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:01PM (#45658238)
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Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by iLemming on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:58AM (#45670132)
The opposite is also true. I have never heard anyone climbing the ladder specifically because they are "so fucking good" with [insert whatever IDE/editor]

Dude is saying nonsense. "Emacs users are unemployable" sounds like "Tesla drivers unregisterable" - what an imbecilic, utter bullshit that has zero sense to say. Ever.

Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by tmtvl on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:50PM (#45674255)
The implications behind gene propagation being one of the highest achievements a person can aspire to are quite unfortunate to consider.

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to, say, avoid a specific doctor because said doctor is fond of Emacs. Same for a plumber, a baker, an electrician, a lawyer, et cetera. As a matter of fact, I have a hard time thinking of any profession where a fondness for Emacs may be considered a bad thing. Perhaps a software developer may have a harder time finding gainful employment if potential employers find out about the preference for Emacs, though that would likely only be an issue among a limited and specific set of potential employers.

Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by tom_ on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:49PM (#45662166)
Now you mention it, come to think of it, I'm actually unemployed at the moment. We can't both be wrong!
Re:Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay) by vincent-manis on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:33PM (#45664662)
I worked at 3 universities and one multi-national company over 30 years. I used Emacs at all of them. I'm retired now, and still use Emacs daily.