Why I use use Emacs in 2022

Just a wee rant after years of comments, rolling of eyes and merciless lunch room discussions.

You are not alone. I use emacs for everything. Modern IDEs are nice but too restrictive for my taste. Emacs is like slipping into a pair of old shoes that are comfortable and capable of tackling any terrain. I have programmed and debugged in Assembly, C, C++, Perl, Fortran, Lisp, Python, Lua, etc in emacs. It always has been a good efficient tool. It is so dammed consistent that you can almost intuit something you do not know about in emacs. It is a joy to use and the community is vibrant and helpful. And it runs on everything. From an 80x20 character terminal to a supercomputer. I do grow and adapt with the times but I do not think I will ever outgrow emacs.

I use Emacs so it is *mine* and not changing every year (month with VSCode) by a wish of some corporation.

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By the end I figured out “spade”=“speed”.

Just a friendly reminder: MS Word is older than Gnu Emacs! (By about two years.) Yet nobody seems to be writing "Why I use Word in 2022". :)

the problem with IDEs is they are only suitable for editing code files, Emacs in its turn, is a universal UI to all text information in system

This is a great point. I think instead of justifying why I use such old software, I'll reframe the question entirely like this.

Nice, but simply not true... Emacs is from 1976 and word from 1983 according to wikipedia..

I didn't say "Emacs", I said "*Gnu* Emacs". The *original* TECO-based Emacs is from circa 1976, but Gnu Emacs, which was a complete, from-scratch rewrite, is from 1985. The original Emacs wasn't written in C, didn't use Lisp, and didn't run on Unix. By 1985, there were nearly a dozen Emacsen, for a variety of OSes, with a variety of extension languages (including none). Gnu eventually became the dominant Emacs, but there are still several others running around. There are word processors from before 1983 too! :)