Comment by ilovecaching

I gave up on Emacs and went back to Vim because of the slowness and the bugs I was encountering while using the Emacs GUI (granted a lot of them were from lsp-mode and other heavy packages). While digging for answers I was told not to use certain platforms, don't use the GUI, use the GUI, don't turn Emacs off etc. which felt like Stockholm syndrome to me. There's a lot of cargo culted config fragments like the ones you'll find in the article. Why does every user have to constantly reinvent the same config to work around all of the issues in Emacs? I don't know, but I wasn't going to stick around and find out. Vim with all of my plugins, which has the same features as my Emacs config, starts up instantly and I've yet to encounter a single bug. I really wanted to like Emacs, and I've chalked up my bad experience to less people putting dev time towards it rather than actual negligence towards the user experience. In the article the author talks about how he's gone bankrupt three times with his config, maybe that's a sign that the problem isn't the author. If Emacs is that fragile, then its extensibility is really a moot point.