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Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?
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Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto |
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Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:43:20 -0300 |
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=emacs editor,eclipse ide
Since 2004 Eclipse (Emac's primary competiton for my use case) has lost some
71% of its "trendiness" according to Google. But Emacs has lost more,
dropping from 25 to 4 (84% less).
Does this Google Trends graph reflect reality?
I am worried because I have personally met only one other Emacs user (not
counting people I only talked to via the Internet). Of course, popularity is
far from the only criteria, I don't have to obey fashion (if I did, I wouldn't
be using GNU/Linux). But I do want my development environment to be
reasonably active, improving and well supported. Can I reasonably trust Emacs
to be active and improving by 2018? At least as a LaTeX editor, IDE for C++,
Python, Javascript and Java, and general text editor.
Thank you for your attention. Sorry for any bad English, I am Brazilian.
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- Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?,
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <=
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