> I accept that it will never be as fast as Vim, but when it takes as long or longer to boot up as a regular IDE it makes me question why I'm not using that. Y

> I accept that it will never be as fast as Vim, but when it takes as long or longer to boot up as a regular IDE it makes me question why I'm not using that. You can significantly increase startup speed by running the emacs daemon on boot and using `emacsclient` for each new instance.