| ▲ | coldtea 7 hours ago | |
>How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim? How many people eat microwave meals? How many eat gourmet Michelin star dishes? I don't care "how many use VSCode". My argument Emacs/Vim have great, well loved TUIs. And they are used by a huge number of the most respected coders in the industry. Whether a million React jockeys use VSCode doesn't negate this. >Countless engineers spent many man-hours to develop theories and frameworks for creating GUI for a reason. Yes, it sells to the masses. Countless food industry scientists aspend many man-hours to develop detrimental ultra-processed crap for a reason too. | ||
| ▲ | 9dev an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
The analogy mostly makes a point for snobbishness, but otherwise doesn’t really work. Most people would rather eat meals prepped by a Michelin star cook, but they can only afford microwave meals - whereas EMacs/Vim and VSCode are equally accessible to anyone. | ||
| ▲ | troupo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> My argument Emacs/Vim have great, well loved TUIs. They... are not great. They provide the absolute bare minimum of an UI. An UI, even a terminal one, is more than a couple of boxes with text in them. Unfortunately, actual great TUIs more or less died in the 1990s. You can google Turbo Vision for examples. | ||