On: Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

[bananadrama]

After 10+ years of Eclipse, Vim, Atom, and IntelliJ... I've bet on Emacs over the past few years on the basis of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect and that it holds a unique space in computing re programmability: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/InternalReprogrammability.htm...

The authors mention "With code completion, Git control, and even automatic deployment systems, modern IDEs are a Swiss Army Knife of features.", perhaps without realising that:

* code completion has been standardised via LSP (e.g. https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot works great, and is planned to move into upstream Emacs )

* Emacs has great Git clients (Magit, vc-git)

Diversity of tooling shows we're experimenting. Good!