castlemacs VS home

I started my Emacs journey with Spacemacs but it wasn't good since it's not actually Emacs - you need to learn entirely new stuff on top of Emacs stuff. In the end I gave up and settled with IntelliJ IDEA for Scala development. In five years I returned to Emacs, but started from very simple Castlemacs distribution, learning the meaning of each line, copying to my config only settings I needed, mostly related to configuring Emacs to behave properly on macOS. I don't bother with Doom Emacs, my startup time of 3 seconds doesn't bother me.

I started from this https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs, it's not been updated for a few years, but a good starting point if you're on macOS.

https://github.com/freetonik/castlemacs is the approach where I finally understood and was the missing tutorial for mac users. I've done the emacs embedded tutorial, but got stuck at that weird usage of ESC key as Meta key. That repo laid down the bridgework to me being comfortable with emacs. Still very sparse, but getting there!

Lower the barrier to entry, maybe give them your configuration or some sort of starter-kit, I think castlemacs is good choice as it is quite simple and useable. Tell them to fork it on Github and use it.

I think IJKL keys are probably better then arrow keys, see how castlemacs does it.

I configure rainbow-mode like this

You can check my config. I use use-package it byte-compiling configs by default.

I use use-package + native compilation and with my config Emacs starts less than second. Maybe you do not need daemon-mode anymore?

Emacs is trully open source. This is my config

You can check my config. For me Emacs starts less than second

This my config. It`s modular, with early-init.el and based on use-package

I use Emacs, pretty happy about my current setup

This is my config for go-mode https://github.com/Crandel/home/blob/master/.config/emacs/recipes/go-rcp.el