I've been working obsessively on a trivial and currently private emacs package, for a while now, and (having not read the article, yet) would concur with the id

I've been working obsessively on a trivial and currently private emacs package, for a while now, and (having not read the article, yet) would concur with the idea that Emacs is great, there's little else like it, but it's also not enough; the promises that it makes (re: freedom to the user, access to internals via elisp, etc) are not fulfilled. It goes a great ways towards delivering it's promises, and casual users will feel the freedom it gives them (great things can still be done with it! Miles ahead of anything else!), but that just makes the walls all the more frustrating when you hit them. No specifics, but I do find the performance situation and the elisp and rendering implimentations to be at the center of my gripes. I am young enough to hope to see, and perhaps even contribute to, a successor to the Emacs philosophy.