* Ergus [2020-09-28 14:11]: > Sorry Jean Louis but I totally disagree with all your opinions. > > 1) Yes, emacs popularity is NOT growing even without proportions, not > relative or absolute numbers grow. You look at younger projects like > sublime, atom, VSCode, notepad++, even vim is MUCH more popular than > us. Just search editor ranking and you will see. Numbers are not > opinions... that's the good about numbers. * Overview of noun popularity The noun popularity has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (6) popularity -- (the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after; "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies") Measuring popularity of Johnny Depp by looking how much popularity got Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Carrey and Emma Watson is simply fake and misleading. Popularity of Johnny Depp is thing for itself, popularity for Arnold Schwarzenegger is popularity for itself. This quick research is telling how many results for term "emacs" are there per year on YouTube. It is not necessarily showing Emcas editor, there is variety of stuff, so statistics cannot be accurate, but it gives a good feeling that Emacs popularity grows and grows from year to year, and that it is in 2020 more than ever before. before:2002-12-21 after:2002-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2002-12-21+after%3A2002-01-01+emacs 0 results before:2003-12-21 after:2003-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2003-12-21+after%3A2003-01-01+emacs 0 results before:2004-12-21 after:2004-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2004-12-21+after%3A2004-01-01+emacs 0 results before:2005-12-21 after:2005-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2005-12-21+after%3A2005-01-01+emacs 1 result before:2006-12-21 after:2006-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2006-12-21+after%3A2006-01-01+emacs&sp=CAM%253D 54 results, about 54 videos in 2006 before:2007-12-21 after:2007-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2007-12-21+after%3A2007-01-01+emacs 124 pages each about 3 videos per page, approximately 372 videos in 207 before:2008-12-21 after:2008-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2008-12-21+after%3A2008-01-01+emacs 134 pages, each about 3 videos per page, approximately 402 videos in 2008 before:2009-12-21 after:2009-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2009-12-21+after%3A2009-01-01+emacs 75 pages, each about 3 videos, approximately 225 videos in 2009 before:2010-12-21 after:2010-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2010-12-21+after%3A2010-01-01+emacs&sp=CAM%253D 16 pages x 3 approximately 48 videos in 2010 before:2011-12-21 after:2011-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2011-12-21+after%3A2011-01-01+emacs 65 pages x 3 approximately 195 videos in 2011 before:2012-12-21 after:2012-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2012-12-21+after%3A2012-01-01+emacs 59 pages x approximately 3 videos per page, result is approximately 177 videos in 2012 before:2013-12-21 after:2013-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2013-12-21+after%3A2013-01-01+emacs 93 pages, approximately 3 videos per page, result is approximately 279 videos in 2013 before:2014-12-21 after:2014-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2014-12-21+after%3A2014-01-01+emacs 73 pages x 3 videos gives approximate result of 219 videos in 2014 before:2015-12-21 after:2015-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2015-12-21+after%3A2015-01-01+emacs 86 pages x 3 videos, approximately 258 videos in 2015 before:2016-12-21 after:2016-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2016-12-21+after%3A2016-01-01+emacs 169 pages x 3 videos, approximately 507 videos in 2016 before:2017-12-21 after:2017-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2017-12-21+after%3A2017-01-01+emacs 179 pages x 3 videos, approximately 537 videos in 2017 before:2018-12-21 after:2018-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2018-12-21+after%3A2018-01-01+emacs 162 pages x 3 videos, approximately 486 videos in 2018 before:2019-12-21 after:2019-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2019-12-21+after%3A2019-01-01+emacs 199 pages x 3 videos, approximately 597 videos in 2019 before:2020-12-21 after:2020-01-01 emacs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=before%3A2020-12-21+after%3A2020-01-01+emacs 208 page x 3 videos, approximately 624 videos in 2020, year is not yet over Evaluate following to see the chart of Emacs's growing popularity on YouTube: (require 'chart) (chart-bar-quickie 'vertical "Popularity for term \"Emacs\" on Youtube" '("2002" "2003" "2004" "2005" "2006" "2007" "2008" "2009" "2010" "2011" "2012" "2013" "2014" "2015" "2016" "2017" "2018" "2019" "2020") "Year" '(0 0 0 1 54 124 135 75 16 65 59 93 73 86 169 179 162 199 208) "Videos per year") We say in and from Yugoslavia, if the "If the horn lies, the goat does not lie" Jean