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diff --git a/2021/talks/forever.md b/2021/talks/forever.md index e8ef7772..f8c29489 100644 --- a/2021/talks/forever.md +++ b/2021/talks/forever.md @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ regardless of mainstream popularity. # Discussion + Pad: - Q1: In your opinion, what is Emacs achilles heel? It's obviously a powerful tool, but no tool is perfect. What would make your life easier in day to day use with Emacs (either a package you wish existed, or a core Emacs infrastructure change). @@ -91,6 +92,16 @@ IRC: - The concurrent pushes for reproducible science, literate programming, literate devops, and so on, also contribute to making the case for Emacs & Org-mode - the performance point is spot on. That is one of the main reason why the neovim community is thriving +- From [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahR5K_wkNQ&feature=em-comments): + - Emacs has changed the way I use my computer. It is absolutely + amazing. I use Emacs to: write latex files, write code, organize my life + (with the help of org mode), check my email, use git , use terminal etc. + Actually I have recently switched my desktop environment to exwm and it is + perfect for my workflow. I guess nothing can beat this tool. + - What I noticed from one graph you showed was that most people using stack overflow also use visual studio code, is there a correlation there I wonder. + - As for Google analytics ranking, some other factors to consider: - What percentage of emacs users search via Google? I may be wrong, but I think emacs users are more likely to use alternative search engines like Duck Duck Go. - There is so much help info built into emacs compared to other editors that is easy to look up right from inside our editor, I wonder what percentage of the searches on Google for the other editors are basic usage questions of the kind emacs users wouldn't need to search online for? I don't know how much weight these factors have in skewing results, but as you said, it doesn't really matter! + - This goes too show in 2004 less people where on the internet and most of then where hard core programmers, and now with more an more people coming into tech , new peeps just want to code and don't care about tools as much . So yeah , I am grateful to you david for introducing me to emacs even though I am too in this new wave + # Outline - Discuss the core thesis, the features that make Emacs |