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LOL. I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, static site generation and more. Please show me VS Code extension

LOL. I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, static site generation and more. Please show me VS Code extensions that have feature sets comparable to those of Emacs packages like Org, mu4e, calc, etc. Here, I'll save you some time by eliminating a couple options: - VS Code Org Mode[1] has maybe 2% of the features of Org for Emacs. - The only VS Code-based mail client I've ever found is VSCode Mail Client[1], which was developed during a single month and then abandoned. VS Code is clearly for normies who use WYSIWYG word processors, webmail, etc. Suggesting that VS Code has surpassed Emacs for non-coding activities is laughable. [1] https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode [2] https://github.com/buhe/vscode-mail https://github.com/buhe/vscode-mail

weakfish 2y ago
“Normies” why do we belittle people who just want to get work done and move on with their lives?
nvy 2y ago
>I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, ... Hey, me too. Or at least, I used to. I've done most of those things but you know what? There are specialty tools that do almost everything better than emacs does it. Emacs calendar is inferior to Google calendar, thunderbird, or even Apple's calendar app. Org mode spreadsheets pale in comparison to libre office and excel. Emacs's email handling is straight up dog shit. Doing simple calculations is better/easier in a python or sbcl repl than am emacs buffer. Generation of static sites is easier, more flexible, and generally better dx with a shell script. Actually writing text is better in vscode. It's more performant, for starters. Imagine a program in 2024 that locks up the GUI if you make a network request. Oh wait that's emacs. Embarrassing. I've used emacs since the early 2000s and I am not afraid to admit VS Code is a better text editor than emacs.
- Nab443 2y ago
  And yet emacs is the only tool doing all these at once, able to save important emails in org mode list you can annotate and export in calc for further integration, running some python scripts to get the last vales to be included and update your static internal site with the result and progress on your tasks...
  - nvy 2y ago
    I guess I just don't see the value of having a "jack of all trades/master of none" text editor. I'd rather use specialized tools for each task, maybe gluing them together with python or bash if needed.

weakfish 2y ago

“Normies” why do we belittle people who just want to get work done and move on with their lives?

nvy 2y ago

>I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, ... Hey, me too. Or at least, I used to. I've done most of those things but you know what? There are specialty tools that do almost everything better than emacs does it. Emacs calendar is inferior to Google calendar, thunderbird, or even Apple's calendar app. Org mode spreadsheets pale in comparison to libre office and excel. Emacs's email handling is straight up dog shit. Doing simple calculations is better/easier in a python or sbcl repl than am emacs buffer. Generation of static sites is easier, more flexible, and generally better dx with a shell script. Actually writing text is better in vscode. It's more performant, for starters. Imagine a program in 2024 that locks up the GUI if you make a network request. Oh wait that's emacs. Embarrassing. I've used emacs since the early 2000s and I am not afraid to admit VS Code is a better text editor than emacs.

Nab443 2y ago
And yet emacs is the only tool doing all these at once, able to save important emails in org mode list you can annotate and export in calc for further integration, running some python scripts to get the last vales to be included and update your static internal site with the result and progress on your tasks...
- nvy 2y ago
  I guess I just don't see the value of having a "jack of all trades/master of none" text editor. I'd rather use specialized tools for each task, maybe gluing them together with python or bash if needed.