Veronica ExplainsI'll take decentralized and janky over simple and evil.
Every day I try to remember the paradox of convenience:
When a tool is challenging early, it sucks early, but often it's great later.
When a tool is easy early, it sucks later.
progo in NYC@veronica I feel like this should apply to Emacs vs Visual Studio Code. But I can't bring myself to give Emacs a fair try.
I had a wise old hacker tell me years ago on IRC: "I use Emacs every day. And it's a hot mess. You probably shouldn't learn it." :^)
Chris-Evelyn@progo If you want to learn Emacs, try everything but text editing first.
No joke. dired-mode (directory editing) is a nice file manager, eshell a neat terminal and doing Git things with Magit is just great. And org-mode for notes and outlines.
One day I‘ll get around to writing code in it, too.