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6 text editors on the wall

The oldest text editor still running

Emacs, running 50 years 200 days since 1976.

50y 200d Emacs has outlasted every other text editor here.
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Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. Emacs since 1976 50y 200d
  2. Vim since 1991 34y 319d
  3. BBEdit since 1992 34y 158d
  4. TextMate since 2004 21y 351d
  5. Sublime Text since 2008 18y 242d
  6. Visual Studio Code since 2015 11y 141d

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