From Karl Voit, we have this bit of wisdom:
Brodie and Stonebraker define a #legacy system as “any information system that significantly resists modification and evolution to meet new and constantly changing business requirements”.
According to this, #Emacs will definitely never be a legacy system. 😁— Karl Voit (@n0v0id) January 24, 2020
You can take this in two ways:
- Development of Emacs in ongoing and robust.
- Emacs is infinitely extensible so even in the absence of point 1, you can make it adapt to new situations.
Regardless, until there is a huge paradigm shift in computing, I expect Emacs will continue to be a relevant and useful tool.
Pouya Abbassi also has some appropriate words along the same lines:
I like tools you can build new tools with.#Reprap is a 3d-printer printer.#Lisp is a programmable programming language.#Emacs is an editor-building platform.
Much like living things, they can reproduce themselves. And also build new things.
— Pouya Abbassi (@PouyaAbbassi) January 24, 2020