I got really into Emacs, probably 10 years ago. I lived it. So I understand why people like it. Then I left, and I don’t miss it at all. I’m glad it exists; it

I got really into Emacs, probably 10 years ago. I lived it. So I understand why people like it. Then I left, and I don’t miss it at all. I’m glad it exists; it sets a certain standard. I don’t think VS Code is “there” yet. But for the love of transistors, I really hope that something comes along that checks the boxes of “why people love Emacs” but also embraces graphical user interfaces. If we never have something widely considered a proper superset of Emacs, technological progress will be incomplete. Luckily, we are in a golden age of text editor and plain-text “knowledge base” software. For example, Obsidian is fantastic — far from the goals of Emacs — but it is a new “locus of excellence” so to speak.