This is really “just leave Emacs running all the time,” which is more of a workaround or an acceptance of “fit your workflow around Emacs” than it is truly a solution, which would be to reduce startup times.
I’m not saying there’s something wrong with leaving Emacs running. But it’s a workaround. When I used Emacs, startup time was not a problem. But I didn’t use a bunch of packages.
Apart from that, without too many paclages stsrtup time is not an issue imo
> or an acceptance of “fit your workflow around Emacs” than it is truly a solution, which would be to reduce startup times.
I don't see a problem with this. Emacs is a general purpose platform, and it's silly to expect really fast startup times if you're using it as a general purpose platform. People aren't expecting Linux to have an instant startup time if you have a large number of services running - why expect it from Emacs?
For what its worth, I've got at least 23 (service --status-all) daemons already running on this desktop. So leaving things running in the background until they are needed has precedent.
I normally never exit Emacs. This is not because of startup time. To me it's like the web browser; I use it all the time, have a workspace dedicated to it and it's natural to keep lots of buffers open. My muscle memory takes care of jumping between open buffers.
(Of course it doesn't really use no resources - it consumes a finite PID among other things)