- Niche programming languages tend to have invested resources into building an emacs mode for their language. Importantly, these emacs modes tend to be maintained by core language contributors. In contrast, VSCode or other editors tend to be community contributions which are discarded over a period of months/years.
- markdown editing
- that's it (I've tried magit (too clunky/sensitive), org-mode (too much lock-in), etc
On windows i find Emacs horribly slow to render text/buffer updates.
- Niche programming languages tend to have invested resources into building an emacs mode for their language. Importantly, these emacs modes tend to be maintained by core language contributors. In contrast, VSCode or other editors tend to be community contributions which are discarded over a period of months/years.
- markdown editing
- that's it (I've tried magit (too clunky/sensitive), org-mode (too much lock-in), etc
On windows i find Emacs horribly slow to render text/buffer updates.
On linux it is blazing fast.