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Is GNU Emacs still worth it?
Seems like with all AI-enabling and just works out of the box experiences with VSCode and alike, makes GNU Emacs absolete. I'm aware of AI packages for GNU Emacs, but don't think is worth the investiement so much; I would mostly save it for org mode, TUI, and some other few packages. But for programming, it doesn't seem lile worth the investment, and use VSCode instead.
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mir's old account
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this year it's AI. Twenty years ago it was X11 support. #Emacs is an immortal shambling fleshbeast, it shall absorb the good in vscode and outlast it. And in 2043 someone will say "is emacs still worth it? It doesn't even do holographic display out of the box. I mean, there are hologram packages available but I'm too lazy to install them."
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Éibhear 🔭
Éibhear 🔭
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Emacs will always be worth the effort. In years to come, it will be those who learned rather than used "assistants" who will know things.

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fomosapien
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Certainly knowing things will always be valuable - but the effect of assistants and LLMs may be to change what it is valuable to know by devaluing a great heap of current generation's programmers's stock and trade.

As an addenda: by value in the above I mean "instrumental value" or more specifically, valuable to the rich who want to exploit the skills of others to become yet richer. There is always intrinsic value to knowing for the people who love to know.

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