Yep, GP seems stuck about two decades in the past. In my experience of daily use of Emacs for development, it's much more responsive and helps focus immensely,

Yep, GP seems stuck about two decades in the past. In my experience of daily use of Emacs for development, it's much more responsive and helps focus immensely, while CLion only tries to eat as much RAM as is available. Plus, the extensibility and multiple environments (think edit, shell, debug, SSH, man, etc) in a single viewport without constant context and visual switching help further with focus.