What Emacs needs is a better, clearner, more complete "standard library" and a better package and dependency management system both for applications and librari

What Emacs needs is a better, clearner, more complete "standard library" and a better package and dependency management system both for applications and libraries. Sure MELPA is nice, and I use it a lot, but I do think there is room for improvement. It also needs a better way to manage configuration both personal/local and collaboratively maintained ways of configuring the editor. It needs "good idiomatic everything". Right now it is "half-assed everything". And while someone might take that as an insult, it isn't meant as one. It is meant as how I, someone who has used Emacs for 30+ years and still use it to write all my code, see Emacs. Every few years I try to update my Emacs setup (it is too painful to mess with regularly) and as I have less and less time to spend on this task, my Emacs setup isn't as functional as it used to be. Which makes it more and more tempting to switch to an IDE. I want to write code. Not spend my afternoon Googling solutions to problems and trying to decide which solution will damage my current setup the least. As for whether or not it needs a better Lisp implementation I can't really judge since I haven't written any Emacs extensions for nearly two decades. Nor would I say I am a sufficiently competent Lisp programmer to make that judgement. Does Emacs need a new Lisp? I think focus needs to be on how you can get Emacs to where it feels accessible and usable to a larger population of developers. Right now it has high barriers of entry and it doesn't feel like there is any obvious path to developing and distributing libraries, extensions and applications. Compare this to VSCode which owes its success to Microsoft being able to leverage lots and lots of developers who feel at home. Yes, this is to a large degree because it is based on a more popular language, but also because the community around VSCode is bigger, produces more documentation, can provide more help, and is in general more approachable. Now you may like or dislike VSCode, but there is no denying that it is more successful in attracting developers than Emacs is. (Note that I'm not interested in Dark Mode or cosmetics. That comes later)