[timmy-turner]

While elisp has lots of warts and weirdnesses stemming from ages long ago, I find it quite suited for its task as an editor scripting language.

For instance, the global namespace is great to play with and learn commands in the scratch buffer. Also the custom datastructures and generally the emacs lisp abstractions around editing are a joy to use.

I agree though that the rendering is too old fashioned. I'd love for Emacs to get smooth, animated scrolling instead of that tty-esque line-by-line movement of the text. That really makes it hard to keep track when scrolling throught large documents.