[asb]

One source of stats is the 2023 Annual Rust Survey. The question on text editors allowed multiple responses (so percentages naturally don't add up to 100%), but 5.5% of respondents reported using Emacs for Rust vs ~30% for Vim/Neovim, vs ~61% for VS Code. I was shocked that Emacs and Vim weren't closer. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...

Obviously, it's possible this is a quirk of the Rust community. Though the Go survey shows similarly small Emacs usage numbers https://go.dev/blog/survey2023-h2-results (3% Emacs vs 16% Vim/Neovim).

[hhh]

Why would emacs be larger? It’s anecdotal, but I’ve gone thru my entire life (I’m 25) without ever seeing it installed on a machine I have used or mentioned in any of the learning materials, when I was younger I only heard it as a flame war topic.

[jebarker]

> I was shocked that Emacs and Vim weren't closer.

I don't really find this surprising. VS Code is just very easy to use and full featured without spending much time on configuration. It took me a while but I had to admit I was just making my life harder by using vim instead of vs code

[sokoloff]

I read the quoted section as surprise that they aren’t closer to each other.

[asb]

Yes that's what I meant. Just an assumption I'd had, perhaps the joking about Emacs vs Vim preference in programmers made me assume the groups were of similar size.

[jebarker]

Ah, my mistake, I think you're correct

[medstrom]

It's been stable like this for a long, long time. 5% emacs, 20% vim, the rest to the editors of the day.

[agumonkey]

let's see next year with all the new rust based text editors :) lapce zed and similar