Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Ken Goldman]

On 5/12/2019 10:45 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Most stuff Emacs routinely does is something the other editors could
> > only dream about, so by and large you are comparing apples to peanuts.
>
> Examples?
>
> Emacs is amazing, but as far as productivity goes, at least as a
> programmer's editor for popular languages, it is far behind current
> contenders.

I was hooked on emacs the first time I saw keyboard macros.

Is there another editor that can spell check code?

I appreciate that it's multi-OS and multi-language.

I use emacs for bulk coding.  However, I use a language and OS specific 
IDE for debugging.