Emacs jank on macos has been slowly killing me. Enough so, that I am thinking of completely jumping ship after almost a decade of using emacs.
I often end up facing lag and performance issues in several different aspects of using emacs. Every time I boot up vim or any of the modern editors (zed/vscode), I get shocked at how smooth they are.
I only have 3 realistic options at this point:
- stop using macos (won't because macbooks are the best hardware I can get)
- stop using emacs
- keep suffering
currently I'm doing #3, but I soon need to make the hard call and swallow the pill.
What will my next editor be? Zed? NeoVim? write my own? Is there any other lisp/emacs like editor?
I often end up facing lag and performance issues in several different aspects of using emacs. Every time I boot up vim or any of the modern editors (zed/vscode), I get shocked at how smooth they are.
I only have 3 realistic options at this point:
- stop using macos (won't because macbooks are the best hardware I can get)
- stop using emacs
- keep suffering
currently I'm doing #3, but I soon need to make the hard call and swallow the pill.
What will my next editor be? Zed? NeoVim? write my own? Is there any other lisp/emacs like editor?
EDIT: helix looks cool