And wanting to rally against late-stage capitalism and the pervasiveness of marketing is also great. But then I have to ask, why get mad at what you’re implying are the victims of the system and not the system itself?

To be clear, I did not intend to call you a bigot. However, I do find your stance to be come off as gatekeeper-y. IE: People can only wear glasses that fit the style and use cases I find acceptable.

I also seriously doubt the choice was made to be more inclusive of others.

They have one drawing with glasses and one without glasses, I would argue that they are trying to be inclusive. But let’s say they aren’t being inclusive and don’t care about other people. What happens if they wear glasses themselves and are doing it solely to represent themselves? That’s also great.

Like if the unicorn was not pushing on the rims and they were smaller I would not have made a big deal.

This is the gatekeeper part, this comes off as saying that you’re fine with glasses but only in certain circumstances. What happens if they made it big and were pushing on the glasses because they thought it looked cute and added to the dynamism of the drawing?

I also think it’s totally cool not to like the drawing.

However getting on a soap box to yell about either fashion changing

If that cartoon had been done 20 years ago do you think it would look like that?

or because society has become accepting of something that used to be seen a lot more negatively

Like I have no problem with people that actually wear or wore glasses because they needed them but there are droves and droves of tech wannabes do it for the fashion.

Likewise I’m annoyed with the whole glasses some how being either a new sex symbol, innocence, or technical prowess of which there is zero correlation.

Is a really cynical and mean take to have against someone just trying to share some drawings they were proud of (or trying to share the work of their partner that they were also proud of).

BTW I wrote this on my standing desk :)

Glasses are now being associated with intellect like they were with the past but also somehow as innocence and cool

So, you’re mad that society has become more accepting of people wearing glasses? That’s definitely a take.

I like that a lot, it’s very cute :)

The GP’s response is very curmudgeonly and feels like the poster asked a question on Stack Overflow.

A mocking response also doesn’t count as a joke response. A joke response would be good-natured and not at the expense of the poster. I agree that it is more of a mocking. And mocking new users isn’t a helpful form of discourse - no matter how tired someone is of their style of questions.

I do appreciate that your response was much more earnest and trying to engage with the poster.

I think I have to disagree, if they want things that work and are full-featured out of the box - then the community packages like lsp-mode and Company and Swiper are much better alternatives 🤷🏼

Unfortunately, if you either don’t have the time or don’t want to spend the time configuring Emacs - the best I can recommend for you is to use a distribution. And I can see that you’re already using the most VSCode distribution, Doom. I like Doom because it sticks fairly closely to Emacs’ conventions (compared to Spacemacs), has a large user base, and enabling most features just involves uncommenting some lines. Doom also has a pretty good discord to join.

If you haven’t seen this tutorial series, it goes over some of the features in Doom in a short videos. It might be out of data on some parts - given that /u/zaiste started this series 5 years ago.

If you want to build your own configuration from scratch Then maybe check out System Crafters (note that’s like 12 hours of videos) on the idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bBJ4ZO7BXjSZ

To answer your actual querstion:

1. Org-mode
2. Magit
3. Multiple-Cursors
4. LSP-Mode
5. Flycheck
6. Company
7. Ido/Swiper/Ivy
8. Projectile

none of these are language specific but they build up Emacs to have the modern features of an IDE that I care about. Connecting up the languages to work with these packages is left as an exercise for the reader. Though they can look at my garbage pile of a config if they’re really stuck.