Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.04.2020 10:04, Ahmed Khanzada wrote:
> Looking at the amount of currently maintained elisp packages online
> these days, I suspect Emacs actually has more users than ever, it is
> just that our segment of the overall market is smaller.

And yet, the number of core contributors stays where it was, at best.

> Let's say tomorrow Emacs is like VS Code running Emacs Lisp in a Guile
> VM. Is the idea that if we compete in the same modes as the modernist
> editors, we can steal enough people from them that we will advance the
> cause of free software?

Sure. But also how about just "help more people enjoy Emacs's power and 
flexibility"?

We don't really have to compete for the _exact_ same audience. But we 
can expand ours.