[rlpb]

Overtaken how? Download size? Startup time? Ubiquitous availability? Number of kernel hackers who use it as their daily driver? What's your metric?

[worthless-trash]

Memory usage and CPU time ! Heyooo!

[jhbadger]

I remember when Emacs was viewed as requiring a lot of resources (in the early 1990s) and I remember the sysadmin of our shared UNIX system scolding us if we had more than one emacs process running (as opposed to opening multiple files in different buffers).

[groovy2shoes]

The old joke was that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, eight megs is nothing these days.

[wruza]

Not a fan of vscode (or emacs, which it “has overtaken”, not vim), but I think it fits OP’s first paragraph.

[darthrupert]

Popularity, features, quality. I still use Emacs myself but I'm not fucking blind.

[jshzglr]

Relax and open your eyes.