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I wouldn't recommend Spacemacs. I use it, it's horrible. Fragile and very bloated, and the primary maintainer doesn't really work on it any more (it hasn't seen

I wouldn't recommend Spacemacs. I use it, it's horrible. Fragile and very bloated, and the primary maintainer doesn't really work on it any more (it hasn't seen a release in something like 3 years). Doom Emacs is a way better choice now IMO.

vvillena 6y ago
Spacemacs has been in rolling-release mode for something like 3 years. Almost everyone using it just tracks the develop branch where features and fixes are merged daily.
- bananaface 6y ago
  Every time you start the develop branch it displays a huge message saying "Version 0.300 is almost out!" (with a description of how stable releases on master branch are the current objective) and it's been displaying that message for 3 years. There is a rolling branch, but the release branch isn't rolling. Spacemacs is usable but the project is calcifying, I wouldn't recommend anyone hitch their cart to it. Like, I'm jumping ship as I write this. My job for the next few days is converting my config to Doom.
  - gandalfgeek 6y ago
    This is exactly the problem with these huge pre-configured "distros" like Spacemacs and Doom. It looks like you spend a lot of time fighting the opinionated setup of the distro. You might as well spend that time starting from vanilla Emacs and craft your own config.
    - bananaface 6y ago
      FWIW while it feels like I'm constantly fighting Spacemacs, it hasn't felt that way with Doom so far. Spacemacs introduces a lot of unnecessary abstractions that are very difficult to perform surgery on whereas Doom seems closer to "sane defaults, but you can modify them easily".
lsllc 6y ago
I recently switched from Spacemacs (develop branch) to Doom Emacs ... Spacemacs was just too slow (but very nice, better than Doom in some ways especially the layers in Spacemacs). I might go back and see if I can get the native-code version of Emacs running with Spacemacs, it might speed it up.

vvillena 6y ago

Spacemacs has been in rolling-release mode for something like 3 years. Almost everyone using it just tracks the develop branch where features and fixes are merged daily.

bananaface 6y ago
Every time you start the develop branch it displays a huge message saying "Version 0.300 is almost out!" (with a description of how stable releases on master branch are the current objective) and it's been displaying that message for 3 years. There is a rolling branch, but the release branch isn't rolling. Spacemacs is usable but the project is calcifying, I wouldn't recommend anyone hitch their cart to it. Like, I'm jumping ship as I write this. My job for the next few days is converting my config to Doom.
- gandalfgeek 6y ago
  This is exactly the problem with these huge pre-configured "distros" like Spacemacs and Doom. It looks like you spend a lot of time fighting the opinionated setup of the distro. You might as well spend that time starting from vanilla Emacs and craft your own config.
  - bananaface 6y ago
    FWIW while it feels like I'm constantly fighting Spacemacs, it hasn't felt that way with Doom so far. Spacemacs introduces a lot of unnecessary abstractions that are very difficult to perform surgery on whereas Doom seems closer to "sane defaults, but you can modify them easily".

lsllc 6y ago

I recently switched from Spacemacs (develop branch) to Doom Emacs ... Spacemacs was just too slow (but very nice, better than Doom in some ways especially the layers in Spacemacs). I might go back and see if I can get the native-code version of Emacs running with Spacemacs, it might speed it up.