Yeah for me magit was one of those "magical" Emacs apps that really keeps me sticking with Emacs despite how slow it can be when you load it up with many extensions (compared to VSCode).

I hope the native comp in Emacs 28 helps somewhat in the speed aspect. The ports over to Deno and other JS stuff look interesting too [0] https://emacs-ng.github.io/emacs-ng/

You probably know this already, but Doom Emacs loads for me in less than a second.

Yeah I use Doom as well, but I've bogged it down with too many extensions and not enough time spent trying to load it smartly.

Running it as a systmed service helps (to avoid starting up a new instance vs. connecting to the service).

> I don't know about others but personally magit changed the way I think about git and version control.

Why? What changed in your view?