[afry1]

I have indeed! This is my first year of using Emacs. Previously I was using VS Code, and before that Atom, and before that Sublime.

Two things which have contributed to my success: - The System Crafters YT channel. David has an amazing tutorial series where you build a config file from scratch. I followed along, and it both gave me a very functional Emacs config and taught me enough about Emacs to get out of trouble when I goof up: https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters - Not being afraid to go back to other editors/IDEs for a while, or even rely on other editors for some tasks. Learning Emacs is tough enough as it is, but when you're a working programmer and you're on the clock for getting something done, it's extra tough to tolerate the slowdown from all those 1000 little things that you haven't gotten comfortable with, or features which were present in your previous editor but aren't yet present in your Emacs config. In past lives I would have just rage-quit and given up on Emacs, but I tried to be gentle with myself this time and take breaks from Emacs when I need to, and it has been a winning strategy.

Never going back.