I think lsp integration[0] can get you pretty far, but also if you use LLM features a la Copilot, I use ellama[1] for that. If there are other features you think you will miss, maybe I can ease your mind about those as well :)
I used Eclim (https://github.com/emacs-eclim/emacs-eclim) for a bit, but I'm guessing, like the sibling comment said, that the current preferred solution would be to use LSP.
I'd love to know if this was in a work setting. Did switching have any effect on your productivity? I appreciate that some languages are better suited to Emacs such as lisps and schemes.
I switched from IDEs to vim in school. That was not much of a challenge for my productivity. I didn't spend a ton of time configuring it or anything like that, and because it was vim instead of vi, I was able to ease in to the controls instead of being force to use hjkl movement right away. Eventually I did learn hjkl as well as lots of other bindings. I have actually lost a lot of my vim muscle memory though.
I don't think the transition to vim was a very conscious decision. I just started using it more and more until it fully replaced my IDE usage. Switching to Emacs was a conscious decision, and one that I took on during work, after college. I wanted to switch because I was interested in learning Lisp, and that seemed like the gateway to me.
I tried switching to Emacs a few times, and it did not stick with me one less than a few times. One of the ways I was able to make it work for me fairly early on in my transition was to use the Spacemacs distribution. I was working on a Flutter / Dart application at the time, and that came with a more IDE-like environment that was more convenient than using vim. What made it really stick for me though was eventually learning Scheme through the OCW SICP lectures with the intent of getting into GNU Guix. Right now Guix is my primary distro of choice, and I use it very heavily in conjunction with Emacs (I use Guix to manage all of my Emacs packages and config). The SystemCrafters YouTube channel, website, and git repos were a huge resource for me for my current configuration.
The most interesting part for me is the relationship with the parents and children.
Compared to what I was brought up with (The Simpsons etc) it's nice that children are not only taught interesting values but also what the values of parents are
There's a YouTube video essay I watched a month or so back that touched on this. It looked at parental figures throughout the history of television and used them as a reflection for generational ideals of what a parent should be
The boomers parents made shows like Father knows best, leave it to beaver, etc, where the father was an almost unimpeachable authority figure. Boomers (and gen x) made shows like the Simpsons and family guy, where the oaf father comes in, and family is mostly viewed as dysfunctional, an obligation rather than something to be enjoyed. Gen x produced shows like Bob's burgers which removes some of the physical violence of the family but maintains the Father as an aloof oafish character. And millennial fathers, as depicted by TV, are like bandit. The oaf is gone, but so is the dictatorial authority figure.
I feel like this extends to other genres but in a more abstract way. I have spent a long time engineering a build order in an rts or a load out in an MMO (I'm thinking EVE Online as an example)
Either way, thank you for putting this list together
