esup VS textadept

Probably the best way to figure out what's going on at startup time is ESUP (Emacs Start Up Profiler): https://github.com/jschaf/esup You could run it on the old config and the new. Although I suppose the processes may be different enough that there's nothing meaningful to compare.

I agree with you. For startup profiling, use-package-report and https://github.com/jschaf/esup can help too.

A very useful tool for achieving faster startup is esup (https://github.com/jschaf/esup) which times each code block that runs in the emacs startup.

Have you tried running M-x esup with https://github.com/jschaf/esup to see what is taking up the start-up time?

Are you on Emacs 28? Native-comp is enabled by default and it's Just Worked™ for me. Or are you on at least Emacs 27? Emacs 27 added native JSON parsing; stuff like lsp-mode works a lot better now.

(Personally running Emacs 29 built from source on an M1 Pro; everything is instant! Even on my old dumpy i5 machine, everything except startup was pretty snappy, with the exception of startup which took ~4 seconds.)

If it's startup you're concerned about, try the esup[1] package to figure out what's taking so long.

[1]: https://github.com/jschaf/esup

If you're really interested what happens on startup, you can play around with the startup profiler( https://github.com/jschaf/esup ) or similar packages that time the execution of your .emacs.

I used the Emacs Startup Profiler (ESUP) https://github.com/jschaf/esup which identified several culprits in my init files. Removing or deferring the loading of those packages took my startup time from ~15 seconds to about 2.5 seconds. (Still room for improvement!)

GitHub - jschaf/esup: ESUP - Emacs Start Up Profiler

Try out esup

- Textadept: https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept

Or "Geany IDE" on desktop environment (while waiting for lapce.dev to get better), I tend to stay away as much as possible from VS Codium, but everyone else seems to love it and already forgot about Atom, few seems to realise how Microsoft really is.

Maybe the plot twist is that you have to accept in your heart that "writing text on anything, is the real IDE", and transcend to writing on nano!

For support try here

Looks interesting. Especially in terms of its customisability, this reminds me a bit of Textadept, another Lua-based editor: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

Textadept has both TUI and GUI, and is Free Software: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

The way it works is that its creator made a TUI implementation if the GUI library he used for the graphical version, so you have the same menus etc.

Textadept -https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ - does this out of the box but I couldn't get on with it.