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Even though I've been using emacs as my main IDE for ~3 years (when I switched from Java in IntelliJ to Go), and using it for non-IDE tasks for ~5 years, I woul
by simiones 4y ago
Even though I've been using emacs as my main IDE for ~3 years (when I switched from Java in IntelliJ to Go), and using it for non-IDE tasks for ~5 years, I wouldn't recommend anyone builds a command-and-ui-driven application in Emacs if they have any expectation to use it outside of the Emacs ecosystem.
For example, I love magit and find it much nicer than many Git GUIs, but I would still recommend something like Git Kraken (or just the GIT CLI) to someone who is not already using emacs for other things.
Emacs is extremely idiosyncratic, and the barrier to entry of using an Emacs-based app is nowhere near as small as using a JVM-based app (and even that is too much for most uses).