Use Electron (Score 3, Insightful)

I bet if Emacs was rewritten using Electron, javascript instead of elisp, and normal key bindings instead of the carpal-tunnel-inducing keybindings it would be significantly more popular.

Oh wait, Atom and Visual Studio Code already did this and are hugely popular: https://insights.stackoverflow...

Emacs had good ideas to make an extensible editor with a built-in programming language, but the world has moved on to use more modern technologies to build such an editor.