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Comment by zeveb

That's something I don't get: why don't they use either? For decades new programmers were exposed to one or both, and they sorted themselves more-or-less by their affinity for one or the other style of text editing. But now they don't seem to be exposed to vi & emacs, and chase Big New Things™ which inevitably don't deliver either a rich, full-featured editing language (as with vi) or absolute power & extensibility (as with emacs).

Is this related to the proliferation of JavaScript libraries and hip new languages? I honestly don't know.

parent zeveb 9 years ago

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