There are alternatives to Emacs. Unless you want Emacs :) Architecture is what makes Emacs Emacs. Sure other scripting languages are Turing equivalent to eLisp.

There are alternatives to Emacs. Unless you want Emacs :) Architecture is what makes Emacs Emacs. Sure other scripting languages are Turing equivalent to eLisp. But there be tarpits. It is not just lisp technology, it is four decades of developers (excellent and not so excellent) committed to improving the tooling within a framework fundamentally designed for developers to improve tooling. VS Code was designed to be user friendly. VIM to be done. Stallman never intended Emacs to be either. TANSTAAFL. Good luck.