5 engineers on Hacker News describe using JOE first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I use joe. I've been using it for 25 years at this point, and it works enough, and I'm not interested in changing.”
endorse · personal · 25 yr · toast0 · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I decided to use joe in the script because it's the fastest text editor by far to start on my system”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · postit · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using 'joe' as my main *nix editor for the past 30 years.”
neutral · personal · 30 yr · deepspace · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After 10 months spent trying every cross-platform (Mac OS X/Linux) editor/IDE from joe, ne, or even diakonos to NetBeans and fiends”
neutral · personal · johncoltrane · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A somewhat complete list of tools we use in our startup:”
neutral · production · Maro · 2010-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?