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by vfclists 2694 days ago
This means that 1 million developers need to do one or more of the below:

1. Switch to emacs (plain emacs, roll your own config - not advised)

2. Switch to emacs and learn adopt evil-mode

3. Switch to emacs and learn to configure it with use-package

4. Switch to emacs and install spacemacs, and configure it with step 3

5. Switch to emacs and install doom-emacs, and configure it with step 3

6. Take 4 then switch to step 5

7. Takes step 3, run it side by side with both 4 and 5, then switch wholly to step 3

1 million developers can have their cake and eat it. Vim, Neovim, VSCode, Sublime and IntelliJ and all other editors go into a slow death spiral.

5 years on: Emacs gains the abilities of all the other Lisp dialects, becomes the foundation for the McCarthy Desktop Environment. KDE, Gnome and Co go into a slow death spiral.

10 years on: Emacs is so advanced that programmers can instruct Emacs via brainwaves. Keyboards are not necessary.

20 years on: Emacs attains sentience. Emacs morphs into a 3 dimensional human form bearing an uncanny resemblance to Richard Stallman. Every Emacs user has their own Richard Stallman look alike at their beck and call.

30 years on: Cyberdyne's Skynet has attained sentience and threatens to destroy humanity. Emacs and Skynet duke it out.

40 years on: Emacs defeats Skynet. Emacs receives the Congressional Medal of Honor, The Victoria Cross, becomes a Peer of the Realm, and receives every award every single country of the world has to offer.

50 years on: Emacs brings peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Every man, his family and his dog live happily ever after.

60 years on: Emacs defeats both Alien and Predator

70 years on: Emacs colonizes new planets.

80 years on: Emacs attains nirvana and vanishes in an explosion of light.

90 years on: Human beings are back to Vim, Neovim and all those other horrible editors and desktop environments. The cycle begins anew.