[cwlb]

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.

[cutler]

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?

[Graziano_M]

You should switch to develop. They are working on release 300 and there are commits being merged daily.

[cutler]

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?

[maximilianroos]

Thanks! It looks good. I'll check it out more.