Spacemacs
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are both very good”
“Or some other distro like Doom Emacs or Spacemacs or stuff like that, if they are after a better out of the box experience.”
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“I love these packages (like this, Spacemacs, Doom, etc.)”
Emacs user for over 30 yearson “IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs”
“I'd look into spacemacs (what I use).”
Emacs user for a decadeon “Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?”
Caveats and dissent
“I constantly had to deal with installing a package and discovering that it broke some unrelated LSP”
“So I would not recommend those to new users”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs? 3 mentions
- Even More Batteries Included with Emacs 2 mentions
- Emacs Turns 50 1 mention
- In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service 1 mention
- IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs 1 mention
Data: spacemacs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“move on from using Spacemacs to making my own configuration”
“I also started on spacemacs but then I wanted to learn the basics of it and switched to writing my own configuration from scratch.”
“I use Spacemacs in holy mode”
“Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are both very good”
“Things like Doom Emacs, and Spacemacs try to solve that problem, but both feel far removed from vanilla emacs.”
“Or some other distro like Doom Emacs or Spacemacs or stuff like that, if they are after a better out of the box experience.”
“I constantly had to deal with installing a package and discovering that it broke some unrelated LSP”
“I love these packages (like this, Spacemacs, Doom, etc.)”
“distros like doom/space would be good for avoiding that initial shock/disappointment.”
“maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow”
“I'd look into spacemacs (what I use).”
“So I would not recommend those to new users”