> Maybe with billions in funding Emacs could start competing with the Chromium/Electron/VSCode teams. But that's not gonna happen
We've seen that many times. With proprietary and free editors and IDEs. Eclipse, Delphi, NetBeans, Sublime, Atom, XCode, MonoDevelop, InteliJ, Visual Studio, VSCode, etc.
Many times in history there were "Emacs and Vim killers", and yet after over 45 years, Emacs is still here and Vim keeps improving. I can bet that 20 years from now and without billions spent on funding, Emacs still would do some things better than any of existing IDEs.
We've seen that many times. With proprietary and free editors and IDEs. Eclipse, Delphi, NetBeans, Sublime, Atom, XCode, MonoDevelop, InteliJ, Visual Studio, VSCode, etc.
Many times in history there were "Emacs and Vim killers", and yet after over 45 years, Emacs is still here and Vim keeps improving. I can bet that 20 years from now and without billions spent on funding, Emacs still would do some things better than any of existing IDEs.