I talked to someone about the extensibility of emacs, but the person I was speaking to assumed that any IDE is just as extensible by using Plug Ins.
Without turning the conversation into a university style lecture, what is one or two simple actions I can do in emacs to show someone what separates it from other IDES.
Remember the last must-have ide? Atom. Gone.
You’ve confused active development with source code availability. Atom is just as open to improvements as emacs is. The difference is the number of programmers reading atom’s support channel is determined by how much they’re getting paid by microsoft whereas those reading emacs’s is determined by how long they can go without employment. I won’t say which camp contains the better programmers. I will say I never got past my first-round interview at Microsoft.