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by bitwize 482 days ago
XEmacs has been out of maintenance for frickin' years, because GNU Emacs caught up back in the 2000s or so. If GNU Emacs is still missing in some ways, XEmacs is "not better enough" to justify a switch for the vast majority of users of Emacsen.
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Missed the remark about 30 years ago? Of course it is out of maintenance for frickin' years.

The question was more did GNU Emacs caught up, or did the folks that cared about XEmacs moved into better pastures?

(X)Emacs was relevant to me, because there was still no IDE culture in UNIX land back then, like on PC and Amiga, and between vi and (X)Emacs (vim was yet to be a thing) definitly (X)Emacs, when UNIX IDEs finally became mature enough, I moved on.

If it is installed, I will use it, but won't go out of my way to use it daily as back then.