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From: | Phillip Lord |
Subject: | Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? |
Date: | Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:36:50 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes: >> That's hard to measure. One way for estimating popularity is Debian's >> automatic popularity contest. >> >> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=emacsen-common%2Cvim-common&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 > > Thanks for that picture. > It confirms my personal hunchy feel that 20 years ago emacs-vi were kind of > neck to neck; whereas today emacs is increasingly in the category: "Whazzat??" > for young programmers. Not sure that this is a good conclusion. I have vi installed on every linux box I use, but Emacs on only some. But I use Emacs far more than I use vi. The other point to remember is that there are more programmers now than 20 years ago. I would be shocked if Emacs popularity as a percentage had not dropped. Phil
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