Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can’t just do everything in emacs.
Emacs vs. VS Code
I think you meant vim or neovim–the one true vim.
Emacs and vim should band together against their common VS Code enemy
It’s called evil-mode
Even as a techie myself I found making Emacs just as featureful as VSCode impossible. The debugging you can do in VSCode is unparalleled and using a cli tool is not as easy or quick as using the VSCode debugger. The editing itself is amazing (better than VSCode) but the learning curve is not worth it when I can’t just do everything in emacs.
Debugging is pretty much equivalent in all editors that support Language Protocol