Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion

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A developer reflects on nearly 30 years of editor usage, moving from Vim and Emacs to VSCode and IntelliJ, then returning to Emacs via Doom Emacs in 2022. The key draw is a consistent, portable development environment across macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD machines using just a shell, tmux, and Emacs. Doom Emacs is praised for its sane defaults, Vim-style keybindings, and simple three-file configuration. The author also touches on the tradeoffs of Doom vs. minimal distributions like Bedrock, and expresses mild skepticism about Emacs-as-everything-platform (Org mode, Magit) compared to Unix shell scripts.

Is anyone still using Emacs?

I am going to try it as soon as I get home.

Linux is the device-driver and Emacs the operating system :0)
Seriously, using Emacs every day, not for advanced stuff, but for day-to-day editing of files. It doesn’t come with the annoyances of many other editors, for instance it can open huge files in a blink where other editors just give up or take forever. For coding I use IntelliJ. I might look into Doom, though, just out of curiosity :-)