> Does it matter if I'm the only one using it?

Yes, you yourself can also suffer from that breakage, and worst of all, might no even notice it right away, so have a period of silent issues

kstrauser 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That’s directly true of all FOSS. Any time you fork something, you have to keep adapting to changes in upstream.

	▲	eviks 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		This isn't about adapting to future changes, but noticing breakage in the current system. But also, even in FOSS there can be projects that value stability and isolation, so if you fix some plugin that misbehaves you don't need to adapt because the underlying editor APIs that plugin relied on are stable and also isolated in a way where your changes can't break other users

nitros 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh, Emacs isn't really a system where broken behaviour goes unnoticed. It either works as you expect or something isn't working correctly.

There is no magical system that can ensure no bug goes unnoticed

> or something isn't working correctly.

the issue isn't whether a bug exists, it's whether/when you notice this

You're missing emacs insane observability and tight feedback loops.

Why did that magic observability didn't help answer this simple question?

> Might this break some other deeply intertwined behavior someplace else? Probably

	▲	iLemming 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> why ... didn't help answer this simple question? How do you know it didn't? Someone may have observed it and fixed it someplace else, but from the point of OP it doesn't matter to them - their system still works "as desired". The world wasn't meant to be perfect for everyone, but you can certainly carve out your own "perfect" piece of it. It seems you have only surface knowledge and little practice of using Emacs. You're not offering any evidence to your arguments and not suggesting any alternatives. Because there isn't a practical alternative that exists today to effectively replace Emacs. You're frantically trying to grasp for reasons not to use Emacs. Why are you looking for validation on an Emacs-themed thread? If you don't want to use Emacs, just don't. If you want to use Emacs but observing obstacles, then get more concrete, instead of complaining just for the sake of it.