On reddit side of internet there is this post. Just wanted to see Lemmy’s answer to that question, so I will start:

I was introduced to Emacs about 15 years ago, but it didn’t click with me at that time. I was young and foolish, laughing all the time “hehe muh parentheses”. At that time I got into world of Vi. Fast forward to today and I use Emacs for almost everything. I started my true journey about three years ago, slowing using it for more and more stuff.

Here is list of stuff I do inside of Emacs:

• it’s my WM (EXWM)
• IRC client (weechat.el)
• RSS reader (elfeed)
• NNTP and email reader (Gnus)
• time tracking, to do tracking, calendar (org-mode)
• note taking (org-roam)
• music and video player (emms with mpv backend)
• mastodon client (mastodon.el)
• wallabag client (wallabage.el)
• file browser (dired) and remote tool with tramp
• shell (eshell)
• code editor (Emacs with LSP)
• git interface (magit)
• documentation browser (devdocs)
• gemini browser (elpher)
• pdf reader (pdf-tools)
• epub reader (nov.el)
• calibre library client (calibredb)
• openstreetmap browser (osm)
• search engines client (engine-mode)

At this point I started to think about Emacs more as an GUI framework with integrated elisp interpreter then code editor.

Going back to original question: what is your story with Emacs?