I am probably in a tiny minority but I wish that Emacs had won the "most popular editor"¹ instead of M$ VsCode
Emacs is ~40 years old now, it's lost many popular-votes through its lifetime. VS Code is just the latest in a long list of popular editors. It also lost to the vi-family, to IDEs, to notepad++, to sublime and probably some others. Emacs is not meant to win, and that's ok, because that what makes it great, is also what makes it losing in popularity with the crowd.
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Emacs is ~40 years old now, it's lost many popular-votes through its lifetime. VS Code is just the latest in a long list of popular editors. It also lost to the vi-family, to IDEs, to notepad++, to sublime and probably some others. Emacs is not meant to win, and that's ok, because that what makes it great, is also what makes it losing in popularity with the crowd.