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I use emacs (sometimes) for two main reasons: * it's much, much more lightweight than IDEs like IntelliJ and VSCode. * it supports every obscure language I li

by brabel 4y ago

I use emacs (sometimes) for two main reasons: * it's much, much more lightweight than IDEs like IntelliJ and VSCode. * it supports every obscure language I like to try, not just the popular ones the IDE vendor has interest in supporting (third-party plugins for other IDEs tend to be pretty poor, IMO), and adding your own "macros" for new languages is very easy. If you have a very powerful laptop with a lot of RAM and don't mind only using that for programming, and you only use languages that are well supported for your IDEs, then I don't think you would like emacs. Otherwise, it's great to have it!

worldsayshi 4y ago
> it supports every obscure language I like to try For syntax highlighting and other syntax related features yes. But I often felt that it was a pain to get more involved features like debugging to work. I don't remember what the story was for automatic refactoring. I don't remember that working.