Emacs is certainly "dying" in the sense that I don't see any undergraduates using it. 20 years ago students were mostly split between vim and emacs. As time went by, both have dropped. Vim has picked up again in the last 8 years or so, helped by neovim, but I don't think I've seen an undergraduate (out of 100 students per year) using Emacs for about 5 years.
My belief (from listening to students) is that vim using highly non-standard keys is seeing as a worth-while tradeoff for the extra editing power it provides. With emacs, it's not clear there is any advantage to emacs not using the standard ctrl+x,c,v,n,s,f, etc.
My belief (from listening to students) is that vim using highly non-standard keys is seeing as a worth-while tradeoff for the extra editing power it provides. With emacs, it's not clear there is any advantage to emacs not using the standard ctrl+x,c,v,n,s,f, etc.