When the results of the State of Emacs survey came out I was really surprised to see that its most reported programming use was in Python. There are some definite biases in the survey participants – I think it was slanted to media used by new users, which were much more plentiful than I expected but obviously much less than the full emacs-using population. Nonetheless I did not at all expect Python to top the language list ahead of Emacs’ classic best-of-class support of lisps like my Clojure, which was down in the middle of languages reported.

Some comments pointed to one of the reasons for Python emacs use because Python-creator Guide van Rossum is an emacs user. Others mentioned a general dislike for Pycharm, where Emacs LSP-setup for Python is pretty good.

Resources

• Discussion of the State of Emacs survey https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/kadhk7/the_results_from_the_state_of_emacs_survey_are/gfa9jty?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
• Guido van Rossum mentioned here https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1375065327-Those-famous-Emacs-users
• LSP python for Emacs: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-python-ms/
• a 2018 guide on setting up Emacs for Python: https://vxlabs.com/2018/06/08/python-language-server-with-emacs-and-lsp-mode/