Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yes, the only thing vscode doesn't have is rapid prototyping, extending the
> environment quickly. Writing an extension for it is much more cumbersome (no
> built-in docs for the api either, you have to browse the web for that), but
> most users don't write extensions anyway, they just want to use existing
> ones, so this doesn't concern them.

Indeed, I think what sets Emacs apart, really, is the effort that's been
made since the very early design to try and abolish the boundary between
"user" and "developer" and make it as easy as possible to get
something going.


        Stefan