Every time emacs starts to chug I shrug and spin up vim. Maybe I could make that happen less often if I spent a while de-bloating and shopping around for faster packages, but as long as UI is trapped in the same thread as everything else I just don’t think I can pull off the sort of optimization that’ll make emacs snappy everywhere I’d like it to be. And cpu performance is ever skewing towards more cores than faster cores, at least for AMD. Emacs is underwater and still sinking, it seems; and much as I’d like to invest so many hours making it my one-stop editing shop I have no intention of going down with the ship.

But hell if emacs were multithreaded I would run EXWM

It’s the biggest obstacle for sure. If we had multithreading I would go all in