@linuxgal That's actual wrong. My #Emacs learning curve was more like the Visual Studio one... Except the first half was steeper. And the second half went down faster first, and then stayed above the Y axis. Why? At first, learning all the concepts of Emacs (keybinding, customizing, later some shallow elisp) and what packages were good was a bit much. But the learning curve went much nicer as soon as one mastered the partial self-documentation capabilities of Emacs. Which are really lacking in the Elisp department. The learning curve never goes to 0, since Emacs is so vast and even a 20+-year-long emacs user (like me) can very easily learn new things.