Two Years With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO (2018)
I wasted two years on emacs.<p>I write code, so I thought emacs would be the learn-once-editor-of-a-lifetime but it was just always an exercise in frustation and wrestling bad defaults.<p>If your using it to write code, emacs is, by default, worse than $IDE because its not built for the write, debug, run cycle an IDE excels at.<p>I only mention this because a lot of programmers and hackers seem to hold it up as a hallowed piece of technology and I the elitism makes you want to try it so you can be up there amoung the gods.<p>Everytime I wanted to write code, I would have to cobble together little scripts to shoe horn in build steps and it was always more work than VSCode would make me do. I want to write code, not make my editor work in a sane way.<p>Org mode is oft touted as the &#x27;killer app&#x27; - its entirely unportable. Android and iOS don&#x27;t have clients that are useable by modern standards. You will hear &quot;oh but you can install this plugin and then it will automate converting your todo list to HTML and it can then run that on a serv...&quot;. No thanks, I just want to sign in once, and everything to be synced.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have the idea of syncing and its totally uncollaborative. I can&#x27;t share it in any meaningful, interactable way.<p>The world has moved on, emacs is a relic of the old world and I finally feel fine in saying that.