Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?

[Phillip Lord]

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