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Sure Emacs is endlessly configurable. But it is too clunky for my taste.

I realize this is sort of like complaining about trivial code style preferences in a code review, rather than looking at what the code at hand is actually doing.

But Emacs just feels too... Old-school. Not in a cool way, but rather in a boring way.

I wish I "figured out" Emacs though.

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Growing up with Windows GUI, I too found many concepts in Emacs are just too different and "old-school".

I wonder if there is an opportunity for a modern, open-source, extendable, programmable text editing environment that uses CUA, Tabs instead of Buffers, and Javascript instead of LISP. Or if it's already too late because VS Code has already taken over the modern, open-source, and extendable parts already?

VS code is corporate embrace and extend open source. Note how they intentionally cripple the truly free builds. That said, VS Code has done great good too. The LSP is a wonderful step forward for all editors.

Edit: incidentally I think there’s a GNU Emacs fork that has some kind of JavaScript binding.

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