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IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

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301 points nogajun | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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pronik ◴[16 Nov 25 12:03 UTC] No.45944469[source]▶
Whoever thinks that VSCode does not have any learning curve or is somehow magically easy, needs to take a reality check, that thing is overwhelming with all its popups, hovers, sidebars etc. beyond all reason when you first run it (and later too). I'm an Emacs user and I don't in any way support the notion it's somehow easy or intuitively workable, it's most definitely not and never has been. I just think that VSCode is not it either, it's just the more popular tool right now.
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1. cholantesh ◴[16 Nov 25 14:45 UTC] No.45945490[source]▶
>that thing is overwhelming with all its popups, hovers, sidebars etc.

I think it's fairly normal if you're coming from heavy IDE use, eg: Eclipse. If you've spent most of your time editing using tmux/[vi|nano|emacs]], maybe that's not the case, but I can't really speak to that as I've never really worked that way.