Not the parent, but thought I'd share.

I discovered Spacemacs in the beginning of my transition from vim to Emacs, and its familiar keybindings and "out of the box" experience really helped me stick with Emacs. These days I use my own Emacs config but that's not to say Spacemacs is not great.

The only times I use vim these days is to quickly edit a file when I ssh into other machines from anywhere other than my laptop. On my laptop, I use Tramp Mode[0] for accessing/editing remote files.

For programming Emacs is superior to vim for me personally; and even more so because my whole workflow is based around Emacs (coding, email, shell, Org mode, etc…).

[0]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

I don't think so. In last couple of weeks I've discovered Org Mode, I really enjoy using it. Plus I like working in Emacs Lisp more than VimScript - something I never bothered to learn.

I gave it a go for a solid month and went back to vim. I don't believe anybody that likes spacemacs has customized their vim at all, or runs many plugins.