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I think a lot of people would argue that Emacs is also slow and bloated, but makes you, the user, program most of the functionality you get from VSCode or JB out of the box. Want fuzzing finding? That's a package. Want git integration? That's a package. Want LSP? Also a package. Want to have sane defaults? Go look at 20 different init.els online and cargo cult a bunch of elisp. And after you've made your own Emacs stew spend, the next 14 years stomping out bugs and ignoring the things it still can't do, like run a multi-threaded tramp so a bad connection doesn't freeze your entire editor.

I think the people who switch from editor to editor that requires 0 config actually saved time and money by just doing their job rather than configuring their editor, and this is coming from a Vim user. Emacs is a black whole where "free" time gets sucked in never to be seen again. The big difference is as a Vim user I only had to configure my editor, you had to configure your entire operating system including Org mode.

I also am not sure about the whole Vim thing. On reddit, Vim has 3x the number of community users as Emacs and Neovim. I think Vim is still by far the most popular text based editor, but nowadays I think VSCode is unfortunately here to stay because Microsoft knows the value of having a captive developer audience.

parent softirq 2 years ago

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