Emacs was never intended as "just a text editor" and it shouldn't strive to be one. It was the first IDE and it is infinitely better than almost any other IDE i

Emacs was never intended as "just a text editor" and it shouldn't strive to be one. It was the first IDE and it is infinitely better than almost any other IDE in terms of customizability. It's main drawback was a lack of very good support for non-LISP languages - TAGS are incredibly simplistic and only let you do basic code navigation. LSP solves that by leveraging the huge amounts of development effort put into VSCode's language support. This makes Emacs, which has a superior editing mode (with evil-mode), and superior customization options, one of the best IDEs available. The only other IDE I use now is Jetbrains for JVM support (because there is no good language server, unfortunately), but I don't enjoy it - you can barely customize it and the text editor sucks compared to what I can do in Emacs.