Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[Bastien]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> I think it's more like "attracting more users is less of a priority than
>> appealing to what others are used to", there's plenty of improvement and
>> development of Emacs going on.
>> 
>
> Yes, but if we take Google Trends as an indicator interest in Emacs
> is decreasing:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends/?q=emacs
>
> Shouldn't it be a concern? 

I don't think so.  The decrease is relative to the rest of available
requests/content, which weight and diversity is rapidly increasing.

BTW "Eclipse IDE" is decreasing too:

  http://www.google.com/trends/?q=eclipse+ide

-- 
 Bastien