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I put some serious effort into trying to use Emacs a few years ago and had the same experience. It's not so bad in the default configuration, but by the time you've installed enough LISP code to reach feature parity with modern editors it slows down annoyingly. Eclipse is noticeably faster.

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> Eclipse is noticeably faster.

You definitely had something misconfigured then...

Not saying that's your problem, emacs could do a lot more to be friendlier to newcomers. I'm just saying, don't be so quick to judge it until you've gotten with your local emacs nerd to see what's wrong with your setup.

Are you an emacs nerd willing to peek? Maybe it's just spacemacs by definition is fucky, but my machine is a beast so I feel like other people would be complaining about slow spacemacs if that were the case and I can't find much of that out there.

init.el and .spacemacs: https://github.com/komali2/Configs/tree/master/emacs

Yeah it's spacemacs. Any soup to nuts emacs distribution like this is going to be slow. I experience it all the time in doom. You don't have anything misconfigured.

Features like helm, ivy, projectile, etc cost. Linters and autocomplete can really make emacs jank. All this stuff is configured out the gate in these distributions.

I've found that prelude, at least, isn't too bad, as long as it's not running on my phone.

I really like spacemacs (I'd love to get back to using vi keybindings in emacs), but man is it slow. Awfully cool, though.

I just took your config for a spin and it's actually quite snappy for me... What exactly is slow for you?

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