LSP-mode has really reinvigorated emacs, at least for me. With flycheck and a language server it's magical.
Writing go, it even auto-formats your code and auto-adds imports.
Writing go, it even auto-formats your code and auto-adds imports.
With LSP and the various client implementations I'm legitimately more productive in Emacs writing Python, Go, or Rust than whatever flavor of the month IDE thingamajig. Magit and Org are the cherry on top of the sundae.
That said I don't push my beliefs on anyone in my team and I try to learn JetBrains products to make pair programming easier for folks that don't use Emacs.
https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
It's how Emacs handled inputs before there was lsp-mode, and presumably is easy to link into other editors too (it's just an implementation of gofmt that manages imports). I agree: it's an extremely nice feature to have.
If you're interested, my emacs config is here: https://github.com/nathanvy/dotemacs/blob/master/init.org
Flycheck still makes it a bit slow. I think, one big missing piece is lack of multiple threads, which often makes few things a bit laggy. For example, if I'm reading a big C++ source code with indentation guides[1], even with native-comp it can lag a bit.
However, as a general text editor, emacs is still great. And I enjoy org-mode.
I did this a while back and haven't had many lsp problems since.
I dropped Emacs for NeoVim because Emacs would frequently lockup for a second or more due to LSP. NeoVim doesn't have this problem.
I would love to return to Emacs someday.
Anecdotally, a few months ago I wrote some Flutter on a potato laptop, NeoVim native LSP client + nvim-compe was borderline unusable. The vim-lsc somehow fared much better - albeit still choppy - even though it's written in vimscript. Emacs + eglot is the only combination that was smooth.