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> I use Doom Emacs which is a lot better than Spacemacs in my opinion.

Can you explain why? I use Spacemacs (and like it) but have always been curious about Doom Emacs.

> This time I was motivated by emacs excelent support for LSP which I wanted for Go.

Neovim has built in support for LSP. I'm guessing Neovim's support for LSP is also very good by now. You have been using the original Vim?

> Nowhere near as fast as vim but the added features are worth the perfomance hit.

Are you comparing Vim with emacs-27 or earlier? Or are you comparing Vim with the unreleased (but still very usable) Emacs 28? Emacs 28 is a bit more zippy due to the native elisp compiler. I think you will be pleased with the performance boost!

Doom vs Spacemacs - I found more bugs and performance issues in Spacemacs. I encountered a few errors in Doom as well but nothing serious. Doom was a lot quicker to set up as well.

I have been using original Vim.

I use Emacs 27 from Debian stable. Will look into 28, thank you.

> if you are a vim user give emacs another try.

Same here. I'm a 8 years vim user and switched to emacs last year, I would recommend the same thing. IMO Emacs is much more powerful and customizable than vim, and evil brings almost everything I need in vim to emacs.

IMHO, using spacemacs and doom-emacs (tried both) you're not really trying Emacs because you're using vim shortcuts (that I love, I'm a vim addicted) on top of Emacs infrastructure, nothing bad with this approach, but definitely you're not having an full Emacs experience. I like doom-emacs, do no use it simply because I do not like distribution for text editors (prelude, spacemacs, doom-emacs and so on).

I’m a Vim user who finds the ideas and promise of Emacs intriguing. The reason I don’t switch is your comment about performance, which is echoed by everyone who has used both editors extensively. I’m in Vim all day. A performance hit would hurt. I need my editor to be fast.

I'd recommend a batteries-included Emacs distro like Doom to try out. That way, you don't spend a lot of time customising the editor before getting invested.

Vanilla Emacs is plenty fast, but Doom will give you a closer to real world use case, with themes, LSP, Magit and other essentials built in.