Wouldn't class myself as an experienced Emacs user. Used it for 5 or so years. Learnt enough to get by and have my own config that works for me. Not got as far

Wouldn't class myself as an experienced Emacs user. Used it for 5 or so years. Learnt enough to get by and have my own config that works for me. Not got as far as writing my own elsip functions. When I set up a new computer 1) Check out my emacs config from git 2) Start emacs 3) Wait for emacs to automatically download all the packages declared in my config using use-package. If you never used Emacs before fair enough it's harder than VS Code. VS Code does let you get going knowing less by clicking buttons. It's the same as comparing any CLI app with a full blown point and click GUI. My take on getting a new user setup... "use what ever IDE you are comfortable with, I do not care. This is the IDE I use, here is how I have it set up if you want to use it also. Person C uses this IDE instead if you want to use that, ask them for there setup. No one here uses your IDE? You are on your own setting it up but can help with any project specific questions you need to know to get your IDE of choice running". As far as code searching goes I find myself often outside of any IDE using the silver searcher (ag) so use emacs projectile for the exact same functionality but within emacs. Sometimes the only feature I miss from a full blown IDE like InteliJ is find usages.