You can view this and other resources using free/libre source software at https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/forever . This video is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. 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.