enjoyed modal editing in vim, got very good with it
enjoyed how easy it was to program/debug emacs
tried setting up evil, wasn't up to the task of configuring it
With both Emacs and Vim I had trouble having to upgrade my configs too often, but that's not necessarily their fault.
It could just be a coincidence of timing, but Spacemacs gives me most of what I want by default and makes it easy for me to customize.
I will say that the Emacs graphic rendering bug which causes pathologically bad performance on long lines has been biting me a lot using Spacemacs to do Golang development.
7~ years using vim 4 years using emacs
enjoyed modal editing in vim, got very good with it enjoyed how easy it was to program/debug emacs tried setting up evil, wasn't up to the task of configuring it
With both Emacs and Vim I had trouble having to upgrade my configs too often, but that's not necessarily their fault.
It could just be a coincidence of timing, but Spacemacs gives me most of what I want by default and makes it easy for me to customize.
I will say that the Emacs graphic rendering bug which causes pathologically bad performance on long lines has been biting me a lot using Spacemacs to do Golang development.