I picked Void mostly in an attempt to get away from systemd. In my opinion, systemd suffers from severe feature creep. For the most part I'd like the software that I use to follow the unix philosophy. As for why I chose Void over other distros that don't use systemd, it's partially because it uses runit as its init and also because I like its xbps package manager. Overall, it's pretty similar to running arch. It's got the rolling release and the minimal base system. You know, I could never get into emacs. I think it really has more than is necessary for a text editor. To be honest, I would use ed if it had syntax highlighting. I haven't been writing much recently, other than stuff for class. The code in the screenshot is from when I read Build Your Own Lisp a year ago. It just happened to be the most decent looking C code in my projects folder.