straight.el

The same engine that VSCode uses is open source [1]. With lsp-mode [2] or eglot [3], you can have the same stuff working inside emacs. I've actually been writing Java inside emacs lately --- yes, java, and I have had very few issues. One caveat, development on the emacs LSP stuff is moving very quickly, so I don't recommend using ELPA/MELPA/etc. to install the plugins. I use straight.el [4] to manage my plugins, they're checked out from the upstream source and can be updated at-will. You'll also need an up to date version of emacs, ie: 26+. (That's the current release, but it's not available in some distributions ie: debian/ubuntu yet.) --- [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/python-language-server [2]: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode [3]: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot [4]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el

Spacemacs does indeed use evil. I found Spacemacs to be great starting point for someone new to Emacs, but after a while I highly recommend extracting your workflow from Spacemacs to vanilla Emacs. Thanks to use-package[1] (that Spacemacs also uses), most of the extracting would be just copy and pasting things from Spacemacs repo. The hardest part would be figuring out which package is responsible for which functionality. A starting point would be just put this in ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (require 'package) (setq package-enable-at-startup nil) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) (package-initialize) (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'use-package)) (eval-when-compile (require 'use-package)) (use-package ev

I build my Emacs distribution, including packages, using Nix[1], which means that input hashes of all the package sources are fully pinned. This process is external to Emacs though. The Emacs internal managers all go towards the same HTTP(S) sources and I haven't seen one that pins input hashes or uses signatures, with the exception of pinning git commit hashes when using git as a package source in straight.el[2]. [1]: https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix [2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straig...

You may be interested by the straight.el package manager. https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el