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use GNU not windows :)
See, that's the kind of argument that is making vscode win over every other alternative.
why do you imagine just saying the windows version of emacs sucks should bring emacs brand ambassadors to you to make their argument for emacs?
it's very odd.
What sets Emacs apart for me is that it, unlike a lot of "unix philosophy" tools, it deliberately takes a sort of systems approach. The often used analogy is that an architect never just designs rooms in isolation, but only changes a room in the context of the house. It's the whole arrangement that matters, not its parts. And you can't infer the performance of the former from the latter. The minimal approach to have…
I used Emacs for a while and now I use Intellij. Now I don't understand the appeal of customizing the editor to such degree. I'm not that unique. I just want stuff that works. Give me the same setup as everyone else so that when issues arise everyone will push for them to get fixed and everyone can help each other.
Reaping the benefit of everyone else's hard work at improving vscode is awesome. It just gets better over time without me having to do anything except occasionally read about new features in the release notes. Spending hours twiddling in emacs lisp to get things configured just right is just wasting my limited time.
I wish I could but the Windows version of Emacs sucks ass.
Warning: the page is huge and managed to freeze my Chromium
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See, that's the kind of argument that is making vscode win over every other alternative.
It was a play on “GNU not Unix” I use vscode as my primary editor
thats actually my reason for switching away from vscode as im mostly working on machines without a discrete gpu AND utilize the gpu in my projects.. i cant have my code editor use 30% of gpu just to scroll text up and down (without any plugins installed) it's just silly XD
I used Emacs for a while and now I use Intellij. Now I don't understand the appeal of customizing the editor to such degree. I'm not that unique. I just want stuff that works. Give me the same setup as everyone else so that when issues arise everyone will push for them to get fixed and everyone can help each other.
(And I don't see the appeal of Emacs at all.)
He does not recommend custom distributions, but for me, Spacemacs (with evil mode) has been a gamechanger.
Same, but with doom instead. It has a sensible set of defaults and easy ways of installing packages. I haven't declared config bankruptcy since moving to doom.
What sets Emacs apart for me is that it, unlike a lot of "unix philosophy" tools, it deliberately takes a sort of systems approach. The often used analogy is that an architect never just designs rooms in isolation, but only changes a room in the context of the house. It's the whole arrangement that matters, not its parts. And you can't infer the performance of the former from the latter. The minimal approach to have…
In short, it’s the antithesis of the UNIX philosophy.
It failed to innovate and address UX issues so its market share devoured.