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6 text editors on the wall

The oldest text editor still running

Emacs, running 50 years since 1976.

50y 245d Emacs has outlasted every other text editor here.
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Emacs (1976), Vim (1991) and BBEdit (1992) lead the 6 text editors still running. The list spans 39 years, from Emacs to Visual Studio Code (2015), and only counts products with a written entry and a founding date; nothing here is dated from a Product Hunt launch. Closed text editors are on the closed list.

Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. Emacs since 1976 50y 245d
  2. Vim since 1991 34y 364d
  3. BBEdit since 1992 34y 203d
  4. TextMate since 2004 22y 31d
  5. Sublime Text since 2008 18y 287d
  6. Visual Studio Code since 2015 11y 186d

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