> It encourages frequent and easy renaming of variables and functions across the whole project, which has allowed me to be more flexible and maintain sensible

> It encourages frequent and easy renaming of variables and functions across the whole project, which has allowed me to be more flexible and maintain sensible names for things even after changes. This one is really a good thing, I agree. Which seems to require a language server integration package for Emacs - AFAIK there exist two of them by now.