That was fast! Thanks for taking the concern seriously.
It may seem like a small thing, but content that literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is a major turn-off.
It may seem like a small thing, but content that literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is a major turn-off.
Given that you lisp, you're probably familiar with Emacs or the symbolics lisp machine. This environment shares some of its modality with these systems and is modeled (rather imperfectly), in their image.
that's too optimistic for sure, but how is it a turn-off without you putting different words into author's mouth?
your claim literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is bullshit, figuratively speaking. i just wanted to point out that your high horse of niceness is not so high or nice if you need to lean on slandering people. that's all. i don't know the guy or the software.
Please don't defend him, especially via these kind of tactical omissions.
The editor wars are not over yet. Emacs is still winning over new users, as is vim, and both are growing and improving all the time.
"A modern developer coming to Lisp would much rather use Sublime, Visual Studio Code, or even vim with appropriate plugins."
They might until they see the power of emacs tools like slime and paredit.
In reality there is plenty of support for both to continue.