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Totally curious: is anyone using Emacs seriously on Windows, especially with stuff like LSP?

My personal experience is that most of the new dev tooling is Linux/MacOS only, and maaaaybe sometimes it's ported badly to Windows.

Are people using Emacs with LSPs for Java, Python, for example? Are they solid? Would you be able to use them day to day for software engineering work?

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I use it for Java and Scala and it is great. The LSP support is good as long as the LSP implementation is good. I imagine it works well for most programming languages nowadays. I have Intellij Ultimate, but I have not needed or wanted to use it in ages.

I use Emacs on Windows all day long. LSP tooling works flawlessly, it would be kinda funny if it didn't given that Microsoft originally developed it for VS Code.

The one thing in Emacs that does not really work for me are these fancier new completion frameworks (Vertico, Orderless etc) as the performance is abysmal. So I switched back to Helm.

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