I promised that this week’s Red Meat Friday would serve as a sort of balance to last week’s RMF post making fun of IDE users. It was supposed to be about an Emacs reddit post that asked Is emacs only for those with “low” cognitive abilities? That was an obvious troll and most of the respondents recognized that and joined in the fun. Those who took the post seriously—or didn’t care that it was a troll—engaged its points and provided reasonable rebuttals.
Sadly, you can’t read the post (although the comments are still available) because some reddit nanny decided that the post was insufficiently civil or something. When did we become such babies? The post didn’t call out any individual and wasn’t vicious. It just poked fun at Emacs users exactly as Vi users and other editor partisans have been doing for ages.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I don’t want or need any humorless apparatchiks censoring what I can read. I’m sorry to see this nonsense invading the tech sector. Judging by what’s happened in other domains, it won’t end well.