Diobo1000

In all honesty, the main selling point of Emacs for me isn't just how configurable it is but also how performant it is in different environments. Since VSCode uses Electron editing feels sluggish, high ram and cpu usage is expected, and there's a noticable latency between keypresses. While these may seem like trivial issues, they actually negatively impact my typing experience to a high degree.

I'm currently using the Doom-Emacs distribution for Emacs and everything is working very well. I can use vim keybindings in addition to many other customizations and improvements with very little time invested in actually writing elisp. This is mostly because the developer of the distribution is passionate and optimizes his configuration for modern languages so there is very little needed to change.

If VSCode or any other text editor managed to provide a fast yet highly configurable editing experience without draining my laptop battery instantly, I would immediately switch. So far, none have been able to meet this specification even though I have tried almost all of the common text editors.

I'm hoping a project like the Xi text editor might one day actualize my desire.

I'm in highschool in Canada and can confirm that we have covered both of those symbols.