Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[ndame]

> It is not that they are lazy, just like people who use a machine to do their

> laundry instead of doing it by hand, they use tools that have been developed

> without the historical constraints of Emacs.

The majority of developers don't like to mold their editor so much, like

hardcore emacs users mold emacs.

They may change the colors, the fonts, maybe some keybindings, but

that's it. They want an editor which looks pleasant and does most

things out of the box without additional tinkering.

VSCode does this well. It provides a great out of box experience, most

things work out of the box, or just a plugin install away. In case of

LSP it may also download and install an LSP server, not just a client.

Most developers want an experience like this where everything works

with minimal tinkering.

I don't think it's realistic for Emacs to compete with that. There are

the legal issues, for example, which I assume prevent installing

Non-GNU binaries from the net and not all LSP servers have GNU license

AFAIK.