The vim and emacs guys had to join forces to flame the greater evil - Electron-based editors.

bigstrat2003 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

A noble fight if ever there was one.

gjsman-1000 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And they’ve lost. Everyone and their cousin uses Electron editors while showing up to FOSDEM on their MacBooks to discuss kernel development.

It’s already long over. We’re just starting to notice. The EFF is baffled - why do they yell in a void now, when just a decade ago they stopped SOPA/PIPA with dramatic effect?

The free internet and the communities that support it have lost their voice and their cultural support. Interesting. It couldn’t possibly be because they stepped beyond common sense and became an echo chamber amongst themselves… right?

(There are many things popular on HN, heresy to question, that even I as a participant emphatically do not support, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I’ve learned hinting at these views gets downvotes and bad faith feedback… so it’s hard to cry at the growing irrelevance. It’s deserved.)

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yoyohello13 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Vim and emacs have definitely lost the main mindshare, but development on those projects is still very strong. Their main focus has never been on mass adoption, so how can you really compete with projects whose main goal is to eat the world?

	▲	shmerl 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		neovim community is very active.

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morsch 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There was a well attended talk "We lost the war" at the CCC congress twenty years ago. There are many reasons one can come up with why. It was always an uphill battle. You seem to delight in the current state of affairs due to other political concerns.

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tehjoker 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Big tech no longer cares about appearing to be revolutionaries fighting for good and ppl are disillusioned

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uludag 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The most recent Stack Overflow survey have vim at 25% and neovim at 14% for the question "Which development environments and AI-enabled code editing tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year?" Even more interesting is that for the 2023 survey Vim and Neovim were at 22.3% and 11.8% respectively.

If the goal is to get more than 50% usage statistics then yeah, you can say they lost, but are dev tools only valid/useful/viable if they have a majority of developers using them? I say they've had tremendous success being able to provide viable tools with literally zero corporate support and a much smaller user base.