Comment by olivierestsage

I appreciate how "fun-oriented" the Emacs community is. Whenever text editors come up, people usually spar over which is the best for various productivity concerns, etc. While I do think there is a strong argument to be made for Emacs as a purely productivity-oriented choice for certain kinds of users today, the community is overall geared more toward hacking it as an end in itself: customizing every little detail, doing willfully goofy things like play mp3s or run tabletop RPGs, etc. These aren't the sort of features that will dethrone vscode in terms of general usage, but I feel that it is valuable as a preserved island of fun and "hacking for the sake of it" in a world of software that increasingly seems to have left those values behind. And as this story shows, sometimes the hackability leads to really positive things.