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I was doing this experiment few years back with `emacs -nw`, tons of other packages in Emacs and custom elisp code. Used `ein` in emacs instead of Jupyter notebooks, browsed web in text browser etc.

But as I grew older I realised I need to pick my battles wisely. I still use emacs for some simple edit tasks and tramp for remote server file edits. But for normal day to day development that pays the bills, I've switched to vscode.

GUI based apps are offering better experience. For example, I can still configure Emacs to work well with Golang or Python. But the out of the box setup you get by clicking couple of buttons in VSCode is far superior.

It is separate matter if terminal world is getting abandoned is right thing or not. Maybe it is relic of a different era: when computers were time shared machines and connecting to them with terminal was the only option. But I increasingly realised that isolating myself out of better GUI based options is not the right battle to pick.




Did you leave before the lsp-mode revolution? You mention Python like you used elpy when it was effective. I don’t find myself needing to leave eMacs for development for anything besides debugging




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