> I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. I agree. It wasn't obvious to me, at first, that Emacs is not a code editor, rather just a Lis

> I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. I agree. It wasn't obvious to me, at first, that Emacs is not a code editor, rather just a Lisp program for editing lots of text. And I didn't even know what Lisp was at the time, so it wouldn't have helped either way. But ... > It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it. It kinda is. I started using Emacs with just a Spacemacs install. And I didn't need to learn anything about Emacs for a long time after that. It was only when Spacemacs stopped being maintained, and I started facing issues due to that, that I looked deeper. It helped that I had learned what Lisp is (Common Lisp, though, not Emacs Lisp) for it to finally click, so I got lucky that way. Now, even when I know Emacs (and Emacs Lisp) rather well, I still stick to Doom Emacs to "setup a coding environment with it".