Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
No thanks.<p>I've had several bouts of trying to learn emacs throughout my life.<p>It isn't necessary to list all the benefits, sure, there's a lot. Yes, I get it's "extensible" and you can write little elisp programs to do just what you want.<p>Here's the obstacle: Motor skills. It just takes way to long to first memorize reams of commands and then to train your fingers to issue those commands effortlessly. In the meantime, searching, "apropos" and googling stuff isn't an attractive thing to do when you have _actual_ work to do.<p>That's a serious obstacle and no listing of all the awesome-ness of emacs is going to convince many of us to put in that kind of effort.