@Absinthe That doesnt exactly answer my question which makes it hard for me to answer yours... But in short, I'd be a bad person to compare the variations in the emacs and vim world. I looked at a lot of them but all very briefly so I dont know much about them. But as someone who recently transitioned fro traditional IDEs like atom, and Netbrains, I can certainly go into some detail on what the appeal is in making that transition or even what ultimately got me to pick spacemacs after briefly trying alternatives.
I did not, however try the alternatives your considering. I tried Doommacs and spacevim and a few others though.
@freemo Yes, those are the isights I am looking for. COmpared to other IDE's
@freemo I am looking at either #emacs with #sly or #slime or #spacemacs with the #lisp layer.