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Emacs is not dying, but I don't know if it is well. I feel that for non-lisp developers it is only the last choice. Ecosystem is split between eglot and LSP, so
by lycopodiopsida 3y ago
Emacs is not dying, but I don't know if it is well. I feel that for non-lisp developers it is only the last choice. Ecosystem is split between eglot and LSP, so you have to choose between debugger availability and performance for many languages. You have to do a lot of work to stop emacs opening buffers left and right on every occasion. Load times and micro-stutters make it a hard sell.
Some amazing work was done in last years with jit compilation, but also some, imo bad decisions were done with the way treesitter was introduced. I love the introspection and self-documentation of emacs, but I just cannot justify using it after neovim, which is very sleek with telescope and mason, easier to configure, fast and just aesthetically more pleasant, to be honest. Maybe if I would not need editors for programming, I would be more interested in org-mode, but on itself it is not enough to keep me in emacs.