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> Today, Emacs is a great retro video game, but you will be kneecapped if relying on it for serious programming work.

I haven't felt like this was true since lsp support matured.

Plus there are big benefits to having the same editor, autocompletion, etc while coding that I already use daily with org-roam.




LSP helps, but even with it Emacs is falling behind. Language hackers support Visual Studio Code first these days, with extensions that go beyond LSP.


> Language hackers support Visual Studio Code first these days, with extensions that go beyond LSP.

Can you give me an example of one?


Julia's VSCode extension provides linting, debugging, and live interactive development features that go beyond the language server:

https://www.julia-vscode.org/




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