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what emacs needs

  1. Make emacs faster
  2. While I dont mind elisp that much, add support for other languages a clojure dialect that compiles to elisp (a la clojurescript) might be nice

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What speed issues are you seeing with Emacs?

The only problem I had was opening very large C++ files with the built-in C++ mode. Using tree-sitter has fixed that problem.

magit , for me on windows, it was slow to the extent of making it unusable, i really liked magit features, but the slowness was a bit too much

https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Microsoft-Windows-Performance....

That's a git and magit problem (and to some extent Windows), not an Emacs problem.

To some extent? That's exclusively a Windows problem!

On normal operating systems you can work with magit even in pretty large repositories, and certainly in regular sized repos. Magit even has an FAQ entry about it.

Part of the problem is not having a git library, and thus magit relies heavily on spawning processes. So yes, a git problem as well.

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