[themafia]

> LSP (Language Server Protocol) was the final nail in the coffin of Emacs for me.

It was the opposite for me. Emacs + LSP + many other common conveniences all bind together so beautifully and efficiently that I can't imagine using any other IDE at this point.

[austinjp]

Indeed. I'm a long time Emacs user (emacs-nox in the terminal). After spending a day getting LSP and eglot working, I'm loving the "IDE" experience. Reliable indentation, auto-complete, intelligent var renaming, real-time(ish) warnings and error messages, etc, all the good stuff. I'd been ignoring IDE features in Emacs for years, thinking I didn't need them, but I have to admit they're a luxury I don't want to give up.

[zkry]

And I have to say that the whole trope of "Emacs may be able to do anything but you have to configure a lot to get it to work" has has got to be pure exaggeration at this point with things like eglot. I had the most painless experience setting up LSP for Java (among many others).

[neutronicus]

It is in fact pretty true with C++.

Getting everything set up for jump to definition and find references to work with an existing code base ... can be a journey.

If you are at a Visual Studio / XCode shop (where these things have been set up and work) you will definitely be swimming against the stream trying to get emacs to "speak" that codebase.

[writebetterc]

Same, Emacs is improving at a rapid rate thanks to its adoption of LSP and Tree-Sitter. Performance is very good, but the async story needs to become better.

[jackcviers3]

Same. It's easy to setup and use. As is gptel, aidermacs, and claude code ide.