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nyl Oct 18, 2023

Is GNU Emacs still worth it?

https://lemmy.opensupply.space/post/7543

Is GNU Emacs still worth it? - Open Supply

Seems like with all AI-enabling and just works out of the box experiences with VSCode and alike GNU Emacs is becoming absolete. I’m aware of AI packages for GNU Emacs, but don’t think is worth the investiement so much; I would mostly save it for org mode, TUI, and some other few packages. But for programming, it doesn’t seem lile worth the investlent, and use VSCode instead.

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Platypus Oct 18, 2023

Is it the right tool for every job? Probably not any more, but it’s still the right tool for many.

I have migrated to VSCode for most of my daily dev work because its language support is undeniably better (especially on a corp machine), but I always keep an emacs window open for a whole bunch of different stuff:

ephemeral todo lists
plaintext and markdown editing
quick-and-dirty Python or shell scripting
project planning via org And all the other weird little stuff that falls through the cracks of an editor but super easy in emacs

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simonced

That’s also a very similar setup I have. Nothing can replace org-mode, so at least Emacs will have to stay for that. Also using it in server mode is nice to reopen a new window in an instance. I also have many tiny scripts I made through out the years to generate random things for work, and also query the radio station we listen to give my the artist and song title that is playing. Can’t work without those ^^