Re: Issues with emacs

[Helmut Eller]

* rusi [2012-06-25 05:51] writes:

> I believe that one of the biggest obstacles to widespread emacs
> adoption is (e)lisp.
> Unfortunately at this point the discussion invariably degenerates into
> a bad miscombination of  technical and sociological framing.
>
> If the issue is technical, then encouraging development is out-of-
> bounds
> If the issue is social -- how to get today's kids interested in emacs
> -- and I start with the slogan LEARN ELISP -- I need to go to
> marketing kindergarten

I have my doubts that "kids" will make a better Emacs.  IMO good
programs are usually built by experienced and skilled developers.  I
don't think that it's accident that RMS wrote Emacs and GCC.  To make a
better Emacs, we would need highly skilled (and probably well paid)
people.  This is probably also the reason why Eclipse is successful: IBM
essentially killed the Smalltalk division for Eclipse.  Those people
already knew what is needed for a good IDE before they came to Eclipse.

Helmut