Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: > Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > >>>> I would be interested to know if there are statistics about the gnus >>>> userbase. >>> >>> Gnus is popular but I am pretty comfident there are not that much >>> users. >> >> A few tens of thousands? And possibly diminishing as emacs loses share >> with the plethora of alternatives available unfortunately. > > Do you mean people leaving Emacs for a "modern" alternative or > people choosing an alternative without even knowing emacs exists > ? That's not the same: we can't loose something we never had ;)
I think the more alternatives then the less chance of them even attempting to use Emacs which we, being the elite ....., know to be superior to all those alternatives :-; So we do indeed lose new adopters as a result of alternatives. (And I do care about Emacs maintaining a large user base since that guarantees continued support and expansion) I also know of people leaving emacs because its way behind in the IDE sense - Eclipse (for example) is much "better" (*) for project management, debugging, development for many people since it works out of the box. People need to share their setups and get the word out! http://richardriley.net/default/projects/emacs/dotprogramming (*) Better here being "ready to run" and meeting a core common need in addition to being infinitely customisable though Java. Things like "just working" context help, refactoring, debugging, rebuilding etc are there and ready. Compare that to emacs and the need to add compile commands, add hooks for devhelp, man pages etc and its quite obvious what is the easiest to set up even if it is not, ultimately, the most powerful solution. -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
