Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by bananaface on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:37AM
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I use Spacemacs. It's horrible. It's:
- Bloated
- Slow
- Encourages you to lock your personal configuration into the Spacemacs ecosystem, rather than writing it in generic Elisp so you can easily extract it (why I still use it).
- Introduces ridiculous abstractions that aren't necessary, just so they can put "spacemacs" in front of the variable name.
- Hasn't released to the master branch in 2 or 3 years (!)
- Consequenty breaks regularly when you use the rolling release (which you pretty much have to do)
- Has an unresponsive owner who doesn't want to hand the project off to someone else (or hasn't found someone)
- Sets up weird default behaviour that's very difficult to disable
- Has awful defaults for most languages anyway. Their Python layer is terrible, the features are extremely limited and it often doesn't work.
- Bloated
- Slow
- Encourages you to lock your personal configuration into the Spacemacs ecosystem, rather than writing it in generic Elisp so you can easily extract it (why I still use it).
- Introduces ridiculous abstractions that aren't necessary, just so they can put "spacemacs" in front of the variable name.
- Hasn't released to the master branch in 2 or 3 years (!)
- Consequenty breaks regularly when you use the rolling release (which you pretty much have to do)
- Has an unresponsive owner who doesn't want to hand the project off to someone else (or hasn't found someone)
- Sets up weird default behaviour that's very difficult to disable
- Has awful defaults for most languages anyway. Their Python layer is terrible, the features are extremely limited and it often doesn't work.
Doom is a much better starter pack.