[the-smug-one]

His point is poorly expressed in that case. Let's look at the quote again.

>Contrast this with Emacs and Vim. They just don’t have proper completion as an editor’s extension point. Rather, they expose low-level cursor and screen manipulation API, and then people implement competing completion frameworks on top of that!

People don't implement competing completion frameworks on top of "low-level cursor and screen manipulation API". There are more high-level APIs included in Emacs, such as completion-at-point. To quote company-mode's website:

>The CAPF back-end provides a bridge to the standard completion-at-point-functions facility, and thus works with any major mode that defines a proper completion function.

To me the author misrepresents what Emacs has built-in and what package writers use.

Technically company-mode isn't third party, it's part of GNU Emacs. It needs to be downloaded, yes, but it's not third party. Emacs needs a package recommendation engine (I know VS Code has this, awesome!).

[matklad]

Thanks for the correction! Indeed, I am not super familiar how things work under the hood, I just observed a proliferation of completion frameworks on top!