[mijoharas]

I run the develop branch and I can't really remember any significant bugs I've had.

I can kinda agree the C++ layer was definitely a bit of a pain, but I had general pain setting up a good workflow for C++ in emacs with the project I was working on (most of the emacs packages assumed a different layout, so couldn't understand my CMakeLists to generate the files it would need to look at for smart completion).

Overall, I quite like spacemacs, I used to hack on it a bit to make it suit my needs better, but now I rarely have anything I need to do it "just works" now.

I particularly appreciate that almost any language I want to use, I can just download a layer (I think it often prompts you to install one when you open the file automatically!) and a lot of the common across languages editor functions you want have similar keybindings, and the `which-key` popup will tell you anything you're missing. It makes a very short ramp up to being productive in your editor for a new language.

[banachtarski]

I'll be honest, my experience since has been that VSCode is... just better? I've been using vim/emacs for over 20 years now so it's a tough pill to swallow, but after trying out VSCode, I have to say that making it easy to program extensions with async functionality from the get-go was the right way to go. I think no combination of rtags, cquery, clangd, lsp, etc in Emacs/Vim/Neovim can approach the performance and quality of VSCode's C++ dev experience. And I say that having honestly tried every permutation of the above for many hours across many weeks.