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No Emacs entry under editors, and no Clojure in the languages section? Somebody on the survey team had a bone to pick.

They're in the write-ins for their respective categories. Emacs with 0.1%. Clojure with an impressive 0%!

But they mention it! (:

"there are dozens of us! Dozens!"

I thought Emacs was an operating system :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559146

No surprise seeing as they authored this: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/09/modern-ide-vs-vim-emac...

Maybe they think the certain generation who uses Emacs has died off or something.

Last years results had Emacs at 4.2% https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology . I would expect it to be roughly the same. Emacs seems to hover around this usage percentage.

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