GUIs and proprietary protocols have killed Emacs.<p>Emacs isn't an editor, as the post implies, it's an environment. "You can do anything from Emacs" made sense back when everything was open and text based. Nowadays everyone is using Slack, or using an IMAP web client for mail that requires bespoke authentication, or organizer apps that automatically sync across all your devices via the cloud. All of the verticals have been slurped up by corporations who did it better in GUI, have better syncing, and have locked down the protocols needed to bridge, and now the brave Emacs user of 2024 is forced to spend lots of time not in Emacs, thus defeating the point of using Emacs.<p>As an editor alone I don't think Emacs is worth it. There's the old adage "They added everything to Emacs but a good editor" and I think that makes sense. If you're not going to live in Emacs for the above reasons then Vim/Neovim is a better editor with a larger community, and VSCode/Jetbrains are better IDEs that are already adopting AI, which will essentially kill off Emacs.<p>Emacs still has a lot of important lessons, but I feel bad for new programmers today who will never get the full experience of a text based digital life. Everything has been dumbed down for our own good, and Emacs is now nothing more than a glorified Org editor that forces you to find your own cloud syncing.