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> To get anything approaching the productivity of an editor like Sublime or VS Code, you have to spend hours installing packages, learning their unique keybindings, and sorting out conflicts.

Isn't it the same with VIM or other free editors?

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To be fair these days you come far by just installing ’lsp-mode’.

To an extent, yes, but I would say that the Vim philosophy involves utilizing external tools much more than in Emacs. Vim packages like the one for Go (https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) feel better-integrated into Vim than the equivalents do into Emacs. This is mostly subjective, so I can see where you're coming from.

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