First of all I really like the value of Emacs as a modern lisp machine. And it is the best environment to write in any lisp language. But for anything else it

First of all I really like the value of Emacs as a modern lisp machine. And it is the best environment to write in any lisp language. But for anything else it is not good enough. Emacs Lisp is better then vimscript but only if you are extending it. For just configuration I prefer vimscript because it is so terse. But IMO just better then vimscript is setting the bar too low. Imagine if it had something like Neovim's msgpack and you could extend it in any language you like. I am still hopeful something like that will happen.