In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?

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I'll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
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Emacs vs. VS Code

Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can't just do everything in emacs.

Debugging is pretty much equivalent in all editors that support Language Protocol