I used spacemacs for a while, but once you use several layers it becomes so slow that it makes VSCode feel snappy. I also find that because it has such a custo

I used spacemacs for a while, but once you use several layers it becomes so slow that it makes VSCode feel snappy. I also find that because it has such a customized way of doing things it often becomes quite difficult to make your own customizations, especially if you try to follow guides written for pure emacs. I've just started using doom emacs, another "distribution" around evil-mode. So far I really like it, it is much snappier than spacemacs and the layering and customization system is much closer to traditional emacs.