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The technical term is “recession”

Indeed it shouldn't. We are herd animals.

The US being the one that showeth us the way of the fall that cometh huh?

... You have no idea how the internet works do you. Why are you here?

Simple. The former is economic warfare against the US, under pretense of the EU “parliament” giving a hoot about its constituents. The latter is plain old fascism.

This is basically the only reply that everyone on this thread should read. Thanks for your research.

That is a correct and fair assessment of the impact, assuming the change lands in a release as-is (which apparently it won't: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00... )

The “or maybe not?” part of the message you are replying to, tells me that someone got told.

Forking Emacs on such grounds is a symptom of ego malfunction. The proper step (after diplomacy has failed, which it hasn't yet in this instance) is to author an alternate implementation of the feature in Emacs Lisp and publish it.

I have a hard time putting faith in that “balkanization theory” from the '90s anymore. A fork gains traction if and only if it manages to get ahead of the mainline feature-wise, and stay there, by a sufficiently wide margin for customers to overcome their inertia. We'll see whether this ~eshel person manages to pull that off, or not (my money is on “not”.)

Can you please substantiate that point?