9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Spacemacs first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“My path was similar, except with Spacemacs, which has excellent Vim-like modal key bindings.”
endorse · personal · imiric · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Doom Emacs or Space Emacs (which was how I started; they are great projects in their own right but can be limiting”
mixed · personal · s0l1dsnak3123 · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Spacemacs (and like it) but have always been curious about Doom Emacs.”
endorse · personal · sidkshatriya · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found more bugs and performance issues in Spacemacs.”
regret · personal · trabant00 · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using spacemacs for nearly 2 years now and autocomplete has mostly always worked right out of the box”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · jeremiep · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since I've been using spacemacs, I don't miss vim anymore.”
endorse · personal · curried_haskell · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm sure doom and spacemacs are great”
neutral · personal · jacobsenscott · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“has brought me back to VS Code from Spacemacs”
neutral · personal · busrf · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also use vim (and more recently, spacemacs) and not an IDE.”
neutral · personal · dkersten · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?