'(Who Uses Emacs?)
It has been a difficult decision to consider moving to Emacs. Besides discovering that it had some superpowers that Vim lacked, I had a niggling feeling that most of my programming heroes were already using Emacs. So I did some digging around to see who were the luminaries.
The digging turned up that the following all use Emacs. (Sorry for not recording many references.)
Language Creators
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Rich Hickey (Clojure creator)
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Joe Armstrong (Erlang creator)
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Xavier Leroy (OCaml creator)
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Matz (Ruby creator)
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Guido van Rossum (GvR, Python creator)
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Donald Knuth (TeX, Algo books)
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Michael Widenius (MySQL creator)
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Guy Steele (creator of many languages)
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James Gosling (Java creator)
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Peter Norvig
Miscellaneous Celebrities
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Eric Raymond (ESR)
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Richard Stallman (RMS)
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Jamie Zawinsky (JWZ)
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Linux Torvalds (Creator of Linux, uses micro-emacs)
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Neal Stephenson (author)
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Steve Yegge
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Avdi Grimm (and other Ruby Rogues)
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Vernor Vinge
More mentioned: Norvig, Andreesen, Guy Steele, Martin Fowler, Knuth, Julian Assange
And, 45% of Clojure devs use Emacs, accoring to the recent survey.
Who (surprisingly) does not use Emacs
Paul Graham (lisp hacker) — vim
Larry Wall — vim
Rob Pike — acme
Brendan Eich — vim