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arthurjj · 4h ago

> They use Emacs because they read that Neal Stephenson essay and they feel VS Code is for normies and Emacs is Gnostic.

hit really close to home for me. When I read it I was coding on Windows, and at the time and it didn't have great support for CLI. But reading "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" got me to really appreciate what could be done

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