>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 t

>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.