Comment by teunispeters

I have yet to find a reason to switch away from emacs as my primary work flow editor. I've been using it for at least 30 years now.

Why do I prefer it to (say) Turbo Pascal or Borland C++? Both of whom "Visual Studio" style environments have inherited a lot from? Well, those two worked well when one didn't have multiple consoles or terminals, and on a single tasking OS (DOS).

I do not want or need my editor to be my whole UI. (I know Emacs can do it, it's just not something I either want or need). And I am not comfortable with a UI that demands changes from Emacs in order to function, as any such UI suffers from blocking effective development, especially for (say) embedded code spaces.

Can there be better than Emacs? Yeah, probably. It's certainly not the most intuitive interface, for instance.

Is there?

No.