I've been using Emacs for the better part of 30 years. Right now, I use it less than ever. I've switched to using JetBrains IDEs for programming. JetBrains repl

I've been using Emacs for the better part of 30 years. Right now, I use it less than ever. I've switched to using JetBrains IDEs for programming. JetBrains replaced VS Code which was nice, but required a lot of time dealing with plug-ins that the JetBrains IDEs don't. The full IDE with tightly integrated deployment, language tools, really advanced code completion, documentation, source control, debugging (and remote debugging), code profiling and project management is just 20-30 too many plugins to manage in most extensible text editors. I still use Emacs for remote text editing and org-mode, but that's it. The UI problems in Emacs are not a "round corners" problem. Emacs is a great console app. But GUI Emacs is sabotaged by it's excellence as a console app. Emacs' autocompletes, tooltips, forms and dialogs are more mid-80s terminal UIs than GUI native. I suspect putting a full, comfortable GUI on emacs is a hard problem. You can't even resize an emacs window with the precision you can every other app on Linux and MacOS (no idea on Windows) because it forces resizes based on line height and character width (or something that approximates that). In the end, Emacs isn't bad software. On the contrary, it is excellent, but it's excellent at being a text editor that is native to a terminal, that runs well as a GUI app. It still is very useful, but it is not competitive with newer ides and through the web capable editors.