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The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
January 17, 2021
20 mins read
In 2018 Bryan Cantrill gave a brilliant talk where he shared his recent
experiences with the Rust programming language. More profoundly, he
explored a facet of software that is oftentimes overlooked: the
values of
the software we use. To paraphrase him slightly:
Values are defined as
expressions of relative importance. Two things that
we’re comparing could both be good attributes. The real question is, when
you have to make a choice between two of them, what do you choose? That
choice that you make, reflects your core values.