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Why Emacs Will Outlast Text Editor Trends
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- 1 Introduction and conclusion
- 2 Who am I?
- 3 Is Emacs unpopular?
- 4 What does popularity really mean?
- 5 How do we measure popularity?
- 6 Google Trends
- 7 Stack Overflow Survey
- 8 Community Activity
- 9 How do editors lose popularity?
- 10 A new editor with better features appears
- 11 Lack of sufficient maintenance
- 12 The "fashion" moves on
- 13 What happens when an editor loses popularity?
- 14 How will Emacs survive *despite* popularity?
- 15 Emacs is more deeply hackable than almost all other editors
- 16 Emacs has a strong community of highly skilled package authors
- 17 Emacs has a very strong user community
- 18 The Emacs maintainers and contributors care about the users
- 19 Isn't all this supposed to come when an editor is popular?
- 20 When someone talks about popularity...
