Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 11.10.2013 00:18, schrieb Bob Proulx:
> Andreas Röhler wrote:
>> Maybe the story of bazaar versus git tells something for this case too?
>
> I don't think that applies here.  If you use bazaar for version
> control then everyone needs to use it to interact with your project.
> Same thing for git.  If you use git then everyone needs to use git to
> interact with your project.  Today git is very popular and so everyone
[ ... ]

Which precisely points at the question.

BTW I'm using bazaar daily and I like it. It's much easier for beginners than git etc.
Git isn't and wasn't the better one per se - nonetheless bazaar lost the race.

While still preferring Emacs, not Vim, there are comparable setbacks.

Bazaar is blamed being slow, Emacs is blamed that.

There are felt inconsistencies, which I wouldn't expect at Vim.

It might be my mistake, `defvar' for example seems to have changed it's meaning since Emacs-23.

While it was used to initialize a global variable, now it's told to signal a dynamic scope WRT to let-bound ones - which is quite a different issue.
Emacs Lisp was fast to hack, as variables must not be passed around explicitly. If I must defvar every let-bound, that's much more to write and also confusing, as a global 
var might not be intended.