Comment by fmajid
3 hours ago
35 years in my case, thanks to Jean-Jacques Lévy of INRIA. But Emacs was started by James Gosling, not Stallman.
3 hours ago
35 years in my case, thanks to Jean-Jacques Lévy of INRIA. But Emacs was started by James Gosling, not Stallman.
That's simply not true. Gosling wrote a commercial implementation, but Steele and Stallman wrote the first versions of Emacs.
There's a megathread on r/programming about the Gosling/Stallman legal fight, but long story short, the GNU Emacs we know today was continuously built upon a foundation first laid down by Jim Blandy and Stallman. Very little, if any, code from Gosling, Moon, or Steele survives.