I, as a Vim user myself, recently saw this and decided to give emacs a try. I still have a long way to go but I have to say that it really does look like it might be the best of both worlds.
Caveat Emptor: I used Vim for a long time, but switched to Emacs about 7 years ago. I still miss Vim, but would not give up Emacs for it.
Many consider Emacs' extension language, Emacs Lisp, to be significantly better than Vim's extension language, VimL. This makes it easier to develop better packages, and also to develop personal extensions/modifications.
This problem has lead to a number of attempts at fixing this:
1. "Evil" is an attempt to port Vim to Emacs, sans VimL. You should see it here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil. Note: there have been a number of these in the past, and Evil is the latest project successor.
2. "Spacemacs" is an Emacs "distribution" of sorts that is trying to make the entire experience with Evil better: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
As an Emacs user, I can tell you that Emacs is superior in every way, except perhaps for emulating VI, but even there it's doing a good job. Next question?
Yep, as a 5+ year vim (then nvi) user...emacs was a eye opening text editor and gets way too much hate for no reason...people say emacs is not modal...but everytime you press control, alt, meta, hyper or super, you enter a mode...then every other subsequent key could put you into another mode. It doesnt make sense to vi users at first, but after you swap control with caos lock and a few other adjustments it really is better.
