I picked vim in the end because I already got really used to the workflow I previously mentioned. But there are many nice things from Emacs that I really miss.

I picked vim in the end because I already got really used to the workflow I previously mentioned. But there are many nice things from Emacs that I really miss. For example magit, various REPL integrations and much better support for functional programming languages. Emacs felt cool and nerdy but I always felt like I was using 1% of it. Many things on the other hand felt much more clunky than I expected (terminals for example). And I don't like all in one philosophy of people reading emails, reading reddit, chatting on IRC all through emacs. I tried many of those things but didn't find it appealing at all. But if I had to do some serious work in one of the functional languages I can see myself coming back to Emacs pretty easily.