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AloysB • yesterday at 11:14 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

It can really vary from one industry to another.

You'd see a lot more Emacs users (comparatively) in academic jobs than, let's say, web development.

As an anecdote, I worked for a network monitoring company, 90%+ of the devs were on vim. Later, I worked in a run-of-the-mill SaaS, 90%+ of the devs were on VSCode.

I'd think that (neo)vim is quite popular. Emacs, less so, that's true.

But according to the Lindy's effect, I wouldn't be surprised if VSCode disappears before Emacs and Vim. Especially as heavy LLM users are opening their text editor less and less.