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I love the Emacs OS, but I'm just not thrilled with the editor that comes default with it. Has anyone ported Visual Studio Code to run on Emacs OS yet?

• FPGAhacker 8y ago
  All jokes aside, is it the ui if vscode that you prefer? I have a hard time nailing it down, but aside from configuration, I do like vscode. I might use it more if we weren’t stuck in an old version of rhel at work.
  • harrygeez 8y ago
    The dream is to have an Emacs with a modern UI like VSCode
    • FPGAhacker 8y ago
      I think your best bet would be to start with vscode and work toward what you like about emacs. For me, the only thing emacs has going for it are the plugins. If I could get the plugins I use in VSCode I'd never look back. Mainly this comes down to CIDER. But a lot of people have put person-years of work into cider. And it's hard to imagine them embracing vscode. Rather than porting plugins or making an elisp interpreter, if I were passionate enough about it, I would look for a path to being able to run a bridge (as a vscode plugin) to a headless emacs. I have no clue how that would be done, but If I chose to believe it was possible, I would try to write an network based API to emacs as an elisp plugin to start, enabling other front ends as neovim does.