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by bananaface 2165 days ago
I use Spacemacs. It's horrible. It's:

- Bloated

- Slow

- Encourages you to lock your personal configuration into the Spacemacs ecosystem, rather than writing it in generic Elisp so you can easily extract it (why I still use it).

- Introduces ridiculous abstractions that aren't necessary, just so they can put "spacemacs" in front of the variable name.

- Hasn't released to the master branch in 2 or 3 years (!)

- Consequenty breaks regularly when you use the rolling release (which you pretty much have to do)

- Has an unresponsive owner who doesn't want to hand the project off to someone else (or hasn't found someone)

- Sets up weird default behaviour that's very difficult to disable

- Has awful defaults for most languages anyway. Their Python layer is terrible, the features are extremely limited and it often doesn't work.

Doom is a much better starter pack.