I like that the author hit on the curious and fun aspect of emacs. Whenever people talk about IDEs and editors, there's so much focus on things like efficiency,

I like that the author hit on the curious and fun aspect of emacs. Whenever people talk about IDEs and editors, there's so much focus on things like efficiency, practicality, and return on investment. I don't use emacs because I did some cost-benefit analysis on my editor. I tried emacs and found that it's a whole lot of fun, which of course is why I got into programming in the first place - I found it, and still find it, fun. If you view programming as a job in the same way something like being a tax account is a job, then learning emacs is probably not for you, you're better off with something like VS Code that asks very little of its users and gives you a nice working environment right out of the box. Emacs is great if, as the author notes, you're an intellectually curious person who genuinely enjoys tinkering. If that's the case, you'll most likely have a lot of fun with emacs. It's very hard to describe how much fun it is to edit and modify your development environment in real time while you're working in that very same development environment.