It's had a very choose-your-own-adventure feel to it. After some time trialing my options, I stuck with Spacemacs, and that choice saved me time in reaching my goal of transitioning my knowledge and project management to org-mode.Įven with training wheels, though, getting started wasn't simple. I first considered trying roughly 10 years ago, but didn't see the thriving package ecosystem I see today, starting with projects like Spacemacs and Doom. Because this will never describe a majority of users, I don't think Emacs will ever capture a majority of developers or whatever, but it seems poised to continue to attract very dedicated ones who find the cultivation of a personal work environment in a ridiculously powerful 40-year-old program appealing in and of itself.Īnecdotally, I started learning Emacs a few months ago and am very happy with my decision. It is a practical tool for someone who takes active pleasure in the cultivation of a practical tool, in the process of learning and discovery involved. Like vscode, Emacs is in every sense a practical tool it is simply that it is practical in service of different needs.
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These threads are always full of comments about how vscode has surpassed it, etc., but I don't think anything can change that-Emacs will ever truly satisfy those for whom vscode is presently the superior tool, and conversely, vscode is unlikely to satisfy the Emacs user. In my opinion, this is a good sign for its future, all things considered. I know that that Reddit board is sort of ridiculous and the jokes about it write themselves, but I nonetheless feel that Emacs has attained a certain counter-cultural "cool"/cachet in recent years that it lacked a decade ago.
Now a day hardly go by on places like Reddit's "unixporn" board that someone doesn't post their slick setup with Emacs/Doom Emacs/Spacemacs on display. Around 2011 or so, I hardly ever saw mention of it online.
As a tech enthusiast but (mostly) non-programmer, my perception has actually been that the "cool factor" of Emacs has been on the rise. I hear a lot about the declining popularity of Emacs, but I always wonder how much it is overstating the case.
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