Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.05.2020 18:52, Arthur Miller wrote:
> When we speak about Emacs and adoption, I think Emacs has actually got a
> revival, compared to how I saw it used for 20 years ago, I think it is
> quite a lot life about Emacs nowdays. There are people blogging, doing
> videos, reddit seems quite active, the mailing list has become likea
> spam:-), I don't remember it was active like this before, people are
> writing new packages and so on.

Was it package.el that did this? It sounds like the most likely culprit.