Is it worth learning Emacs for programming?

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  • Your personal experience is not representative of what people are actually doing. Doom emacs sure has 15k stars and 234 forks on github. r/emacs has 63k members. Loads of people are using emacs as their preferred IDE. Hell I even know people that use emacs in place of desktop environment on their work machine.

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