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These kinds of hyperboles are really really bad. You are stating that if it took 1 minute to install a plugin and get to work in vscode, it would take 694.4 day

• nverno 4y ago
  Not just 'other editors', I was thinking about emacs specifically. I think my point was fairly obvious. Maybe not a million times, but probably hundreds. Vscode and other modern editors use key combinations everyone knows by default, eg. C-q, C-c, C-v, etc., have gui directory browsing- so there is essentially no learning curve. It takes weeks (at least) using emacs/vim until text editing/movement starts to pay off. There's no learning curve for `M-x package-install`, but if there is some variable that needs to be customized, like the path to an executable or something, that's a whole rabbit hole to go down, and at some point you need to learn lisp or you'll waste a lot of time being confused by errors. During the only programming course I took in college, one in which emacs was required, I spent as much time learning emacs as anything else (it was also the most valuable thing I learned so I'm grateful in the long run).