Vim has more users than Emacs and lately neovim gained a lot of traction; they managed to coordinate the community on a direction, ask for money, fund a new generation of programmers to learn the codebase and update it to be async and use a different script engine.
Emacs has had several efforts at replacing elisp or rewriting the core in rust or what have you... But they've never been able to budge the local maximum nor coordinate the community on the new direction. Actually, I believe guix is the new emacs because..
Neovim has succeeded in retiring vimscript for lua and from there a community is emerging around fennel (a powerful lisp that compiles to lua). This is the beginning of a very interesting answer to emacs which is growing fresh from old roots and there seems to be a lot of people eager to build tools with these tools.
Although I tend to think the brand value of vim and Emacs is worth a lot I'm starting to see a lot of new editor projects that look somewhat appealing but until the packaging and configuration management gets at least an order of magnitude easier I'm reluctant to spend time with these things.
Vim has more users than Emacs and lately neovim gained a lot of traction; they managed to coordinate the community on a direction, ask for money, fund a new generation of programmers to learn the codebase and update it to be async and use a different script engine.
Emacs has had several efforts at replacing elisp or rewriting the core in rust or what have you... But they've never been able to budge the local maximum nor coordinate the community on the new direction. Actually, I believe guix is the new emacs because..
Neovim has succeeded in retiring vimscript for lua and from there a community is emerging around fennel (a powerful lisp that compiles to lua). This is the beginning of a very interesting answer to emacs which is growing fresh from old roots and there seems to be a lot of people eager to build tools with these tools.
Although I tend to think the brand value of vim and Emacs is worth a lot I'm starting to see a lot of new editor projects that look somewhat appealing but until the packaging and configuration management gets at least an order of magnitude easier I'm reluctant to spend time with these things.