i’d make a creative joke, but no time, i gotta configure neovim!!

He might be implying that emacs from young age will result in longer life span than you would’ve had without emacs.

Will switch on my deathbed, thanks this saved a lot of time

And once you Start to actually habe an useable config and know the basic keybinds it starts to become so incredibky worth it.

Just use any GUI text editor! You can still use keybindings in them.