Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
As an Emacs user for ~10 years the greatest deterrent is it being single-threaded and lisp. I just can&#x27;t understand the love for it. I&#x27;ve spent countless hours customizing my own configuration and I just can&#x27;t enjoy lisp. Emacs&#x27;s source code is also hard to understand and contribute to (let&#x27;s not talk about lisp.h).<p>I&#x27;d rather have a new editor (or emacs fully re-written) with the same mindset as emacs - near-full customization via a modern scripting language (lua?) and&#x2F;or c&#x2F;cpp plugins, and text-centric. I don&#x27;t care for fancy UI or buttons it could even have the same look and feel which I love