Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 10.10.2013 07:25, schrieb Rustom Mody:
> On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > Emanuel Berg [2013-10-09 21:41:45 +02:00] wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Evans Winner writes:
> > > > Is it [Emacs] less popular than vi? That's hard to believe.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I don't believe that either.
> >
> >
> > That's hard to measure. One way for estimating popularity is Debian's
> > automatic popularity contest.
> >
> > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=emacsen-common%2Cvim-common&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>
> Thanks for that picture.
> It confirms my personal hunchy feel that 20 years ago emacs-vi were kind of neck to neck; 
> whereas today emacs is increasingly in the category: "Whazzat??" for young 
> programmers.

Maybe the story of bazaar versus git tells something for this case too?