It is not my intention to ignite an EMACS/vim war; I will say that I find it baffling that Lower Decks is ending while Strange New Worlds is being continued. I like Strange New Worlds, despite disagreeing with some of the artistic licenses being taken. But if I had to choose between the two shows, it’d be no contest. Not only as a viewer do I prefer LD, but it has to be the cheaper show to produce. The fact that next season is the last (both by design, it only being contracted for 5 years; and announcement) is sad and incomprehensible in the same way the cancelation of Firefly was - except LD is popular and successful, whereas Firefly merely had a fanatical (🖐️) fan base.
I don’t understand it. Yes, you want to end on a high note. Maybe the writers are running out of plot ideas. Perhaps, given an initial life span of 5 years, the actors have all made other arrangements and aren’t available. But I just can’t believe the One Big Plot Arc that’s been building would necessitate ending the series by its resolution.
LD is a strong show. It’s lighthearted. It’s a breath of fresh air after the more decidedly darker, ethically challenging, and emotionally straining runs of TNG, Voyager, DS9. And Strange New Worlds… the Gorn are basically Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise.Who, despite being the existential threat of the show, somehow get entirely forgotten about by the time in TOS.
But I digress. I’m going to miss Lower Decks, badly. How can this happen? And why?
Please, can’t we have just a little emacs/vim war?! :-P
Nvm, I will preemptively win it here:
For anyone interested in its history:
Good old xkcd - I knew this would show up, e eventually:-), though the concept has since been simplified:
Though I really like the look of this one:
And I’m not so sure about this one but there’s a funny extension to programming:
Long live the wars - bc it means that we have so many great options to choose from!:-)
You could just put “(with vim bindings)” after everything, including EMACS. I have them on in Firefox.
M-x insert-gene
…pico / nano
Oh so you want to play it like that then!? (/s)
Pic didn’t load but something something emacs whore. Oh yes, i know the ancient texts my son.
Okay then a different one:
Jim from the office, watching and smiling as people argue over vim vs. emacs.
He knows the truth - that you should use whatever you want and enjoy the most:-).