I have a lot of contacts in Hyderabad, India and it doesn’t seem like any of them are really worried about their jobs. Haven’t heard of any layoffs there. With additional GCCs being built out I do think there will be more offshoring.
I have been converting a lot of my makefiles to pyinvoke and fabric and it makes things so much easier to manage than bash or make. Don't know why I held on for so long.
I do wonder if a lot of the stuff that Google has worked on Google Docs, Chromebook were inspired by Sun. Eric Schmidt was a VP at Sun and Novell before joining Google.
I’ve been an Emacs user for more than a decade and I would recommend just using Doom especially if you are coming from a Vim background.
I started before Doom existed but ended up in a configuration similar to Doom but more brittle. I ended up just declaring .emacs bankruptcy and started over with Doom and was pleasantly surprised that my over 2000 line configuration became less than 30 customized lines.
If you want to do it the hard way I’d start with figuring out elpa and going from there installing the specific plugins that you want. Likely, evil being a first.