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00:01 Introduction and conclusion
00:28 Who am I?
01:07 Is Emacs unpopular?
02:26 What does popularity really mean?
04:15 How do we measure popularity?
04:32 Google Trends
06:18 Stack Overflow Survey
08:20 Community Activity
10:23 How do editors lose popularity?
10:38 A new editor with better features appears
12:25 Lack of sufficient maintenance
14:01 The "fashion" moves on
14:36 What happens when an editor loses popularity?
17:10 How will Emacs survive despite popularity?
17:20 Emacs is more deeply hackable than almost all other editors
19:51 Emacs has a strong community of highly skilled package authors
21:15 Emacs has a very strong user community
22:33 The Emacs maintainers and contributors care about the users
23:40 Isn't all this supposed to come when an editor is popular?
24:22 When someone talks about popularity...
The computer software industry has seen many "popular" text editors come and go, often due to the mercurial fashions of software development. In this talk, we'll take a look at why popular editors fade and the specific aspects of Emacs that will ensure it remains relevant regardless of mainstream popularity.
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