Using Emacs in an IDE World
On the one hand, Emacs is a very flexible platform powered by Lisp. Users can change and extend it to their needs, make smaller adjustments on the fly. That’s the source of its attractiveness and longevity.<p>On the other hand, it seems to look confusing for potential adopters, use archaic terminology and keybindings, it takes time to setup a dev environment comparable to VSC. Elisp has its problems and disliked by many users. Emacs slowly loses its appeal and audience, and, in my opinion, this will not change beyond small improvements.<p>What do you think, is there a potential niche for like NeoEmacs, a test editor written in a modern Lisp &#x2F; Scheme (maybe, creating such a language would be the first goal), with the same flexibility, but with modern features included by default, modern keybinding and terminology?<p>Once I hoped Lighttable ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lighttable.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lighttable.com&#x2F;</a> ) would become that, but it did not happen.<p>Edit: grammar.