Re: reddit

[Jai Dayal]

Well in the context of technology, modern generally means tools that keep
up-to-date with the latest improvements and changes in technology and
culture. What you're presenting is just a hard-headed excuse. There's a
reason GCC is losing out to Clang, and Emacs has lost to IDEs. Ya'll have
maybe, what, 20 years or so before you guys die or retire? Who's going to
take carry Emacs over for the next few generations? These excuses of "hey,
look, I can implement that feature in 10k lines of Elisp!! Emacs is just as
usable and feature-full!!!!!!!!" just don't fly in the today's world where
there are 10's of IDEs that have an easier user experience. Not to mention,
some things just flat out don't work (C++ code completion in Emacs).

Reddit and stackexchange are far more user friendly than antiquated mailing
lists full of old senile grandpas complaining about "top posting" and all
kinds of other pedantic rubbish. Reddit will also increase exposure to
Emacs as a whole, so people who write software, but are unaware of great
plugins (i.e., the things Tudho writes), will occasionally stumble upon
Emacs threads. I get that the grandpas like to cling to the "way it used to
be", but in the end, modern liberalism always wins out over dogmatic
old-school conservatism.

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> And that will work to their disadvantage -
> >> big time.
> >
> > Not really. It's actually to the tool's detriment
> > when the maintainers do not seek out modern outlets.
> >
> > Nobody loses productivity by not using emacs and
> > instead using one of the modern IDEs that
> > exist today.
>
> The word "modern" doesn't carry any payload. (In the
> future, by the way, things will be even more modern.)
> What matter is what comes with the most *power*.
>
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