I programmed in Emacs in a myriad of different languages, I used it to write my thesis, to write my homework and later to grade them. I’ve used it to publish countless blog articles, wiki pages and technical documents.

I read that I was hired at my first job from en email received inside Emacs, I’ve used it to send countless emails to colleagues, employers and business partners. I planned both my personal and professional life inside it, I’ve used it to track the time spent doing a certain task when no such software was yet available.

Most of the time I’ve spent in front of a computer over the last 20 years, was inside Emacs. Happy Birthday, Emacs! You’re the best thing that happened in the computing world.

I’m sorry but I don’t agree with this. These models are faster and more accurate than me and their solutions are usually better than mine.

I’ve been through quite a lot of programming eras over the years (compiled, interpreted, loosely typed and finally JS/Python for everything), but this time I just can’t adapt anymore.

I’ve jumped this sinking ship nearly two years ago and while I was skeptical about it at first, I’m now more and more happy about this choice.

Where did you jump to?

I mean, wasn’t that the case for most of them? Im not a developer anymore, but to me programming was always a means to an end. Sure you can have preferences (static vs dynamic typing, functional vs OOP, etc.), but in the end they should only be relevant if they make you more productive, makes the codebase more readable and so on.

Since these nuances are progressively getting less and less important, why would you care about the process?

There is such a thing as difficult concepts that code can express elegantly and words cannot. Its far beyond the simple preferences you allude to. Recursion is the simplest example i guess. Perhaps maths is even more elegant, but im among many a non mathmetician for whom code is the only way ive experienced it thus far.

Especially when you combine and mix those concepts in expressive, simple, intuitive ways. Im just not sure what else is like it that our minds can percieve.

Because a lot of people enjoy the process. Why do you think people so wood working as hobby or the whole demo scene?

> Everything I don’t like is fascism.

Nobody cares about this nonsense, grow up. Also, labeling Spotify’s CEO as a fascist just because he’s involved with a company that builds drones for Ukraine is completely ridiculous. I did the same for a few years and the only people who complained were a bunch of self proclaimed “leftist pacifists” who had the brilliant idea of slashing the tires of some of my colleagues as an act of protest.

> Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe.

You people are completely out of touch with reality. You cannot accept that the reason of why we’re voting for the “far” right is because we experienced a whole decade of uncontrolled immigration policies that permanently reshaped the way of living of previously homogeneous countries.