I'm chuckling (not in a bad way!) at the emacs user that prefers vi keybindings expressing optimism about a Microsoft editor written in a statically typed variant of Javascript. Progress is cool.
I try my hardest to not be dogmatic, and my answer to the argument about vi having better keybindings while emacs having better extensibility is "why not both?" :) JavaScript is almost an acceptable lisp, too...
Why? emacs has had an "evil mode" (vi keybindings) for a while
additionally i would mention that this "Microsoft editor" runs with a web browser engine by google
You made my day. Didn't even notice the irony... :D