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I like Org mode especially. In a world of digital surveillance, AI fueled spyware, SaaS and app stores, emacs based applications are a haven of trust and freedom.

totally. but biggest problem is it's still single-threaded and an errant program can still lock the whole thing up

and i understand this is extremely difficult to fix

how often does that happen? doing what?

Unfortunately, more often that I want. My emacs locks up for multiple seconds a few times a week. Yet, been using emacs for 20+ years, so changing to something else is difficult. It's especially noticeable with LSP stuff.

things like opening a remote network connection etc

That should have rewritten with async long ago. Not the whole Emacs, but creating tramp a subprocess binary or an async elisp function.

add tree-sitter and LSP to that list!

You forgot the killer app: magit