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by maximilianroos 1924 days ago
For those who use Vim bindings, and would like to try out emacs, I'd suggest trying Spacemacs:

https://www.spacemacs.org/

It has "evil mode" by default — the vim bindings.

I picked this up at Jane Street, where much of the internal tooling is in emacs. I still use it wherever I can't get a good vscode setup, and it has some advantages over vscode.

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I picked up spacemacs earlier this year but have since switched to Doom emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs it's smaller, faster, and you configure it in a way that's closer to vanilla emacs. The size makes it more tractable to learn. The creator & primary maintainer is more active, funny, and helpful than the spacemacs maintainer who I believe is on hiatus.

I wish someone had told Doom about it before I picked up spacemacs so maybe this post will benefit past-future-me.

I've been using Spacemacs for Clojure development for years but stable has been stuck on the same version for ages so is it actually maintained?
You should switch to develop. They are working on release 300 and there are commits being merged daily.
It's been thaty way for years so not very encouraging. With develop I can't just click Update Packages. Any advantages these days of staying with Spacemacs over Doom?
Thanks! It looks good. I'll check it out more.