This is a "your tiny bubble vs. everyone else" thing. I'm a professional programmer in the US, and, even when I was working in a Clojure shop, I was the only em

This is a "your tiny bubble vs. everyone else" thing. I'm a professional programmer in the US, and, even when I was working in a Clojure shop, I was the only emacs user. Think about that for a second: even working at a company where every dev is paid to write Lisp, I was the only one who bothered to set up emacs. The other developers were using the Clojure plugin for IntelliJ or the Calva plugin for Visual Studio Code. And, to be honest, I can't exactly blame them. I tried setting up Calva the other day, just to experiment, and its out-of-the-box experience was far better than emacs'. It was literally just a matter of installing the extension and loading a Clojure project (I was using Leiningen for my project definition, but Calva supports others as well). It brought up a REPL, it started doing autocomplete, and you could even hover over symbols to view their documentation. And none of this required any kind of manual configuration on the part of the user. At this point, I honestly can't really recommend emacs to any developer who doesn't already know how to use emacs. If you want to start programming, just download VSCode and get the plugins for your favorite language.