IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

Until Emacs resolves the performance issues on Windows, all those custom distributions are questionable for me.

This is an interesting project and the picture can certainly fool you for a moment.

I do wonder who the target audience is. Sure, this is a nice tryout if you are a VSCoder and want to try emacs. This essentially comes down to new users of emacs and trying to replicate it like another editor. Sounds you are skipping the basics of emacs training.

Perhaps I am wrong, here?

At the end of the day - it's just an .emacs file with the appropriate packages. I would recommend learning those packages individually, allowing you the freedom to express emacs that suits you. If there is something you still like with editors or IDEs like VSCode, you can adapt it.

Emacs is a customisation program!

I have been a C# developer for nearly 20 years (and an emacs user for about the same)

I have been using emacs for practically all languages except for C# with Visual Studio (IDE). However, as the years passed.. have slowly moved over to emacs. By the time .NET Core was introduced (I think VSCode was around this time, also) I realised that I have most if not all tools I need to do some serious .NET work in Emacs. -- Today.. I pretty much use emacs with odd exceptions.

My emacs is very simple. I have my lsp-mode (csharp-ls) as well as the usual magit, yasnippet, etc. With a nice dark theme, I have all I need to navigate about my project/solution. It's funny... when my co-workers see me with emacs they just assume I am "trying to be different" for the sake of it. However, when they watch me.. and without the use of a mouse.. they soon understand why I use it.

I have also added additional functions to create solutions, projects, building, deployments.. all visible from a custom screen.