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I won't use Emacs because I want a smart editor or IDE, not an editor construction toolkit. I have no interest in micro-optimizing my editor.
> I won't use Emacs because I want a smart editor or IDE, not an editor construction toolkit. I have no interest in micro-optimizing my editor. Pretty much all "smart editors or IDEs" that are available are editor construction toolkits bundled with add-ons which make completed editors using the toolkit for a variety of special purposes, and with an ecosystem (first party and/or community) of additional add-ons availa…
The difference between Emacs and those other tools is that some other people already used the tools to build things for me. With Emacs I have to build it myself, 90% of the time.
It's cool, it's interesting, it's tinkering and I don't want to do it :-)