The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by harrygeez on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:08PM (#25813106)

I'm on the same boat as you. I love Emacs, the uniform keybindings and especially Magit, I thought I could never use anything else until I started working with TypeScript React in my current job, which Emacs has very bad support for.

The funny thing is: I don't even consider VSCode a superior text editor, it's just that Emacs is _so slow_. I used Emacs back then because compared to many other editors and IDE it allowed me to work faster, but VSCode despite all its shortcomings has done the very same thing Emacs did for me previously.

I still use Emacs every day at work just for Magit, but whenever Emacs freeze just for a few seconds every time I perform a big merge I just feel like finishing up the task in VSCode

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by mtalantikite on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:54PM (#25814855)

I had a similar experience recently, where I had to spend some time working in TypeScript on a React front-end and my emacs really was falling over unfortunately. Tried tide, tried the LSP, but ultimately I found myself in VSCode in order to make the deadline. Turns out there is a pretty great magit layer in VSCode (https://github.com/kahole/edamagit), and as a former long term vim user that had been using spacemacs, a great spacemacs-like bundle for VSCode (https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode).

It’s the first time I’ve actually felt like I could drop emacs if I wanted to, I actually was enjoying the setup.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by Koshkin on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:55PM (#25816105)

> Emacs is _so slow_

That’s exactly what it felt like in 1991: “eight megabytes and constantly swapping!”

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by michaelmrose on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:43PM (#25814166)

Do you use Emacs in windows?

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by harrygeez on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:14PM (#25814482)

I've used it on Windows before and I think I know what you're talking about. However, right now I'm using it on macOS actually, the mac-port to be more specific.

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