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But I mean, that's not Emacs fault?



It very well could be. Attempting to either adapt yourself to emacs, or emacs to you, can take a long time, and may also fail.

Not to mention that, as much as I love emacs and other free software, bugs in your tools can absolutely destroy a day. The last time I tried emacs, a bug in the golang major mode that hung emacs in an infinite loop ruined a few days before I moved (back) to another editor.


> The last time I tried emacs, a bug in the golang major mode that hung emacs in an infinite loop ruined a few days before I moved (back) to another editor.

This can happen just as easily by installing a buggy plugin in any other IDE. I love IntelliJ, but have definitely lost time trying to figure out how to make something work or configure it to my liking.


It can. The thing I like about some of the other IDEs though is that it doesn't tear down the entire process; the plugins are sandboxed. Is this possible in Emacs? I'd be shocked if the answer is no. But most major modes I've personally interacted with are not.




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