[frumplestlatz]

Yikes. I’ve spent 40 years in this industry. My work is in formal verification. My comprehension isn’t the problem here.

I wrote a lot of lisp making Emacs work the way I wanted it to. VSCode has been a remarkable improvement. Writing extensions for it has been a breeze. I have zero interest in going back.

[iLemming]

> I wrote a lot of lisp making Emacs work

Share the Emacs packages you wrote. I'm saying this unironically - someone might be interested to keep improving them, maybe they'd find some interesting ideas to extract from them. Don't be like some ungrateful jerk who benefited from communal work for years when it suited them and then has nothing to leave but grumpy resentment when they're done.

[frumplestlatz]

That's genuinely wild, man.

[iLemming]

In what sense? I apologize if I offended you. Just to be clear - don't share your config, experiments, packages or whatever with me specifically - simply consider making them public. Don't let the years of accumulated wisdom (whatever it adds up to) go waste. Emacs is not "a product", it's a "shared enterprise" and collective endeavor. Of course, it's not really "free" - just like everything, it has a price - it requires patience, dedication and time from every participant. You've mentioned using it for years, which means you've contributed to the cause. You've decided to move on - your reasons are your own. I'm not asking you to donate, volunteer, or speak about it either way. Do what you want. But for a moment, perhaps consider this with wonder: how many remarkable things have we humans collectively created that require no payment whatsoever, yet grant us the freedom to do things on our own terms? Projects like Emacs and Vim/Neovim are like free-for-all, unrestricted gardens. And that's why I get vexed seeing stuff like: "used it for years - getting tired of it...", etc. Reflections like that are akin to shitting all over the neck of those imaginary gardens, making them less desirable places for curious newcomers. I'm not telling you to not criticize, please do, but perhaps with consideration - tell it with constructivism. Allow those gardens to grow. They will most likely outlive your pondering - positive or otherwise, and mine and those of many more generations.