I love Emacs. I’ve been using it since late 2017 and have had an on and off again relationship with it. It’s a great tool for anyone who likes to tinker around with software. Like any relationship, there are some pain points I have that consistently want to push me away from Emacs, one of which is performance.
I’ve used Doom Emacs for a really long time and hlissner has done an incredible job of building a fantastic configuration setup, and compared to other configuration frameworks I’ve used, Doom is the most performant and most versatile. That being said, no matter how much optimization is done on the configuration side, Emacs can still be extremely slow, especially compared to it’s Vim counterpart.
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