[binary132]

Not quite following. You’re saying there used to be a motive to use forks, because Emacs proper wasn’t healthy? At this point, standard GNU Emacs is about as good as it gets in my book, plus the package library is of very high quality compared to the other editor stacks out there. People just don’t get into writing emacs packages if they’re not in the 1% of the 1% of developers in the first place. Almost zero slop.

[pjmlp]

Yes, lets say Guile never really makes as an Elisp replacement, that would be another case, although apparently Guile-Emacs effort was relaunched, lets see.

30 years ago it was another matter, Emacs culture back then was pretty much against the cool features from XEmacs, a bit like GCC versus what made clang exist in first place, in terms of how Stalman would vouch against such features.

In any case, the 1% remark is quite relevant given how many still reach out to Emacs in modern times.

[binary132]

What made Clang exist, and become successful, was having a massive corporate backer and a nonfree license.