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I'm in the same boat - I've used it almost daily for 7ish years at this point. It's so much fun to use and customize, but there are easier options out there. W

I'm in the same boat - I've used it almost daily for 7ish years at this point. It's so much fun to use and customize, but there are easier options out there. When people find out I use Emacs I always caution them against using it. It's taken me a long, long time to be productive in Emacs. VSCode, JetBrains tools, etc. don't have the same requirement and start up time to productivity. Buying into Emacs does give you a lot though! Emacs way of splitting panels, going through buffers, going through files, always feel better than other applications for me.

tpmx 3y ago
> Emacs way of splitting panels, going through buffers, going through files, always feel better than other applications for me. Yes! Some of the people who built GNU Emacs were legit UX geniuses.
adamc 3y ago
It does. And the editor design, where almost everything of significance is just a function you can call/advise etc. from user code, makes it the most supple editor on earth. That's why I'm still there. But... Pretty huge learning curve to adopt it.