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Symbolics is long dead, and Emacs lost the edtor wars. A modern developer coming to Lisp would much rather use Sublime, Visual Studio Code, or even vim with appropriate plugins. This set of assumptions is increasingly invalid.


"Emacs lost the edtor wars."

The editor wars are not over yet. Emacs is still winning over new users, as is vim, and both are growing and improving all the time.

"A modern developer coming to Lisp would much rather use Sublime, Visual Studio Code, or even vim with appropriate plugins."

They might until they see the power of emacs tools like slime and paredit.


Who are you to speak for everyone? Did vim users and emacs users meet on ye old battlefield and now the emacs users have to slink off in defeat and delete their emacs configs because more people use vim?

In reality there is plenty of support for both to continue.




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