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> I don't think anyone is arguing that emacs is *incapable* of being a good editor for Go and Python.

On the contrary, the article said, literally: ”We are primarily a Go and Python shop, which means our only real option is VSCode”. Meaning they do not consider Emacs to be a ”real” option. This is expressing more than mere personal preference; it is, at best, profound ignorance of what Emacs is capable of.

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IMO, emacs isn't a real option when you're talking about a group of developers. The people for whom emacs is a real option likely already use emacs (same with (n)vim), but that choice is made at the individual level, rather than at the team level.

It's unlikely that a given team/workplace is going to roll out dev tooling that is just a pile of elisp. With VS Code, you can drop a couple of JSON files into your project, commit and push them, and then everyone has a preconfigured set of tools that match the needs of that project.

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