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That he burned 11,000 words on his text editor tells you why emacs users are unemployable.

I worked at 3 universities and one multi-national company over 30 years. I used Emacs at all of them. I'm retired now, and still use Emacs daily.

I'm an employed emacs user and more than half of my team also uses emacs

Now you mention it, come to think of it, I'm actually unemployed at the moment. We can't both be wrong!

Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s

employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to

Your words, not mine. But gene propagation is up there, and steady wages is a sufficient if not necessary condition for that to happen.

Never in my 20 years of programming, data engineering, engineering management of games, search engines, dating apps and machine learning systems I had a problem of people not wanting to hire me because I prefered Emacs (and linux).

In fact, in was the opposite.

So what are you even talking about?

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The opposite is also true. I have never heard anyone climbing the ladder specifically because they are "so fucking good" with [insert whatever IDE/editor]

Dude is saying nonsense. "Emacs users are unemployable" sounds like "Tesla drivers unregisterable" - what an imbecilic, utter bullshit that has zero sense to say. Ever.

The implications behind gene propagation being one of the highest achievements a person can aspire to are quite unfortunate to consider.

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to, say, avoid a specific doctor because said doctor is fond of Emacs. Same for a plumber, a baker, an electrician, a lawyer, et cetera. As a matter of fact, I have a hard time thinking of any profession where a fondness for Emacs may be considered a bad thing. Perhaps a software developer may have a harder time finding gainful employment if potential employers find out about the preference for Emacs, though that would likely only be an issue among a limited and specific set of potential employers.

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