Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Jean Louis]

Emacs is today more popular than ever. There is no decline in
popularity, there is increase in popularity.

If one is developing or let's say simply loving Emacs as software,
then one should look into how many new users are coming to Emacs and
how spread and disseminated is Emacs and what impact it does, and if
that impact is greater and greater or lesser and lesser.

There is no point in measuring various other editors and looking into
the proportional statistics of editor usage, to say that Emacs is not
popular, as that is incorrect, inadequate, let me also say false
statistics, that spreads doubts, it's negative energy.

Let me give you example:

Time period 1:

- emacs users 20
- other editor A 20
- other editor B 35

Time period 2:

- emacs users 25
- other editor A 23
- other editor B 38

Time period 3:

- emacs users 30
- other editor A 30
- other editor B 42

In this blunt example, if you look into how many other editors are
used and compare that to Emacs, you could be saying that Emacs is not
popular.

But that is wrong way of looking into things, what one has to look is
if Emacs is being used more and more.

If I sell bread from my own bakery, I do not mind and it becomes
really not relevant, if so many other bakeries are out there, also
seling all kinds of bread.

What really makes impact to me, as from my viewpoint, is if my bread
is selling more and more. As that is the one true statistics of
improvement and impact.

Statistics of improvement and impact and popularity of Emacs should be
watched from Emacs distribution statistics.

I have no access to YouTube, as I did not pay tax for Internte here in
Uganda and don't use VPN to access it, but I think that YouTube offers
searches by time, so one could search for Emacs in specific year
maybe, as what I know is that today there are more and more Emacs
presentations and videos, and more and more people speak about Emacs,
as I am observing it last 21 years, I can say today is Emacs more
popular than ever.

Jean