> To just learn to operate it as a text editor certainly doesn't take a year, but if that's the approach you're going to take I wouldn't recommend emacs. Use VS

> To just learn to operate it as a text editor certainly doesn't take a year, but if that's the approach you're going to take I wouldn't recommend emacs. Use VS Code or a JetBrains IDE or whatever instead The way this sentence is constructed, it makes VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs sound like just text editors :) In all seriousness though, for the vast majority of programmers Emacs (or vim for that matter) has no value compared to, say, Jetbrains IDEs. You need dozens of plugins and an unknown number lines of arcane configurations just to have a semblance of a small part of functionality that those IDEs have out of the box.