Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

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Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> writes:

>> > This is what I mean when I say many times emacs is kind of mandatory,
>> > and
>> > this thread is kind of a demonstration of what I meant because the main
>> > discussion evolved to: you can use this or that in emacs to ease the
>> > dev
>> > experience.
>> 
>> 
>> One of the benefits of my being able to attend Guix Days was seeing
>> peoples' workflows and stacks in person.
>> 
>> As such, one of my conclusions having (already) committed to Guix was
>> that I needed to master Emacs prior to Guile
>> (Im highly flow orientated).
>
> But again, even if this is a great option for you, it might be a really bad
> option for some other people. Everybody does not have the time to spend
> learning emacs, or other specific tool. It's ok if the workflow suggests that
> but it's not great if we have no other alternative.
>
> It's not accessible and imposes a barrier in some people.

Yeah agreed. And we should be consious of that.
Ironically by mandating Emacs and Email we force people to use specific
tools while at the same time even though the same people will complain(!) 
against vendor lock-in
like github.