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coldtea on June 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience

>is that it would be easier to bring Emacs/VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards

Perhaps but nobody has done it yet.

oblio on June 23, 2015 [–]

And it's not for lack of trying. The last major attempt was Sun Studio on the 90's/early 00's.

Emacs and Vim are like Lisp at this point: unicorns. Perfect, mythical creatures everybody loves to talk about. Meanwhile oxen like Eclipse, Visual Studio, Sublime, etc. keep chugging 90% of the world's code :)

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