I'm a recent convert as of this year! However, (and I don't know if this will surprise people, I suspect not) I actually use it primarily for org-mode, for note-taking, to-do-lists, documenting and thinking through small bits of code that require careful thought.

It's also my version of powerpoint, e.g. recently I was sharing my thoughts with someone and made use of folding to guide the ideas I wanted to communicate to them. I use VSCode for code.

It's been a slow renaissance for about a decade. Compared to when I got serious about Emacs in 2009, there are just a lot more Emacs related activity these days. It's been a gradual growth.

Definitely something of an Emacs renaissance, I'd say. Personally, I have been on a 2 year experiment using doom-emacs as my primary IDE. Doom really helped ease me into the Emacs world, by vastly improving and modernising the UX for new users (let's be frank, Emacs has an awful UX out of the box).

I have to say though, I'm actually starting to migrate back to purpose built tools. Obsidian over org-roam/org-mode, and VSCode/IntelliJ for coding. Magit/forge are still irreplaceable for me though - such great software.

Long time after various Xerox publications on desktop computing, after long time of crappyfication of desktops to lock users, some people start to realize that a desktop is a nice thing and... There are no desktops around in the modern world. So some try exotic little WM, perhaps tiling, some try to go a bit more in Unix CLI, some try Emacs as a 2D CLI or something better then Unix + (Vim, GUIs etc) to discover that's good and powerful.

Perhaps in 10 more years Emacs will have something Tioga has had in the past (like a bit more graphics capabilities)...