as a vim user, I'd have to say no... don't recommend it to vim users. There have been, for me, too many edge cases where I just end up in that helm(?) display thing at the bottom when I was trying to do some simple thing. For ages :edit and :write and :quit didn't work. As the parent poster mentioned the installation doesn't work. You really have to be willing to work for it. I've commented about the incorrect docs and the need to tweak things to make it use insecure downloads and they seem content with the idea that there's a known workaround, that isn't mentioned in the docs.

i really _want_ to use it. I love vim's modal editing, but extending vim is a pain in the butt, and I'd love to use lisp to tweak my editor.

But, I absolutely can not recommend spacemacs right now.

Installation process is broken crap (at least on the mac) and you end up having to deal with meta-this-that-the-other way too often for simple (non-advanced) vim commands.