White House weighing in on the big issues

andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 166 points –

Sources say the decision was made by how long interns spent in each editor. In fact, it appears the vim users simply never exited once they opened the program, presumably because they found it so productive.

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We need to set aside our petty differences and fight the true enemy: bloated IDEs.

ed is the standard editor.

Bah, a magnetised needle and a steady hand is the one true way to edit code on your prod system.

Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.

Hah, still relying on butterflies? Real programmers simply use the starting conditions of the universe to understand where their program will spontaneously compile

White House are not Emacs guys!? That's not surprising. They believe in 'you can't change the program, but the program changes you'.

This is what kicks off the second Civil War in the United States. And just the like first time, those treasonous Emacs Confederates will be decisively defeated.

Begone, spawn of evil!

Allow the light of Church of Emacs into your heart!

I think the guideline should be: future software should be written on a whim

Finally, a president I can get behind.

As a vim user, seems emacs is the more difficult one to quit.

I tell myself I can quit vim, but somehow I keep going back to it...

Emacs just starts too slowly. Helps to break the dopamine cycle.