Significantly less so than before, but it's unfortunately still the case. It's also just now getting features that people have been asking for for over a decade, and of course due to the nature of Wayland the implementations of these features are sporadic and inconsistent.

It's not. Wayland has really gotten its shit together in the last 5-ish years. A lot of the desktop ecosystem has matured in the last few years, actually.

I maintain that the Linux desktop in 2021 was actually less usable than it was in 2016. But things have really turned around since then.

I agree: running simulated computers inside of Minecraft is a significantly more impressive technical feat than bolting on display surfaces to planes with a mod.

There's a big difference between something being compiled to run inside of Minecraft, versus running a sidecar that streams back a display. It's the difference between compiling and running on your machine, and streaming back a cloud machine using RDP.

Not like this makes a difference to users, who don't know how any of this works. But we are on Hacker News...

For the real emacs experience you could use this mod to render an IDE in Minecraft editing the mod that renders the IDE.

There are multiple ways that something can be "in minecraft"

You speak as if this isn't neat in its own way.

Yes, but part of the fun is doing it in Minecraft and using Minecraft's language for it (e.g. putting windows in your inventory, pulling them out of chests, etc)