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One source of stats is the 2023 Annual Rust Survey. The question on text editors allowed multiple responses (so percentages naturally don't add up to 100%), but
by asb 3y ago
One source of stats is the 2023 Annual Rust Survey. The question on text editors allowed multiple responses (so percentages naturally don't add up to 100%), but 5.5% of respondents reported using Emacs for Rust vs ~30% for Vim/Neovim, vs ~61% for VS Code. I was shocked that Emacs and Vim weren't closer. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html#what-ide-do-you-use https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
Obviously, it's possible this is a quirk of the Rust community. Though the Go survey shows similarly small Emacs usage numbers https://go.dev/blog/survey2023-h2-results https://go.dev/blog/survey2023-h2-results (3% Emacs vs 16% Vim/Neovim).
- jebarker 3y ago> I was shocked that Emacs and Vim weren't closer. I don't really find this surprising. VS Code is just very easy to use and full featured without spending much time on configuration. It took me a while but I had to admit I was just making my life harder by using vim instead of vs code
- sokoloff 3y agoI read the quoted section as surprise that they aren’t closer to each other.
- hhh 3y agoWhy would emacs be larger? It’s anecdotal, but I’ve gone thru my entire life (I’m 25) without ever seeing it installed on a machine I have used or mentioned in any of the learning materials, when I was younger I only heard it as a flame war topic.
- medstrom 3y agoIt's been stable like this for a long, long time. 5% emacs, 20% vim, the rest to the editors of the day.
- agumonkey 3y agolet's see next year with all the new rust based text editors :) lapce zed and similar