[jshen]

atom works well out of the box. Emacs ... not so much.

[baddox]

How often do most developers set up a new environment? For me, it's nowhere near enough for me to care at all whether my main development tool "works out of the box."

[jshen]

I used emacs for years and I spent far too much time fiddling with it to get it to the place of something like atom.