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VSCode isn't even that good, idk why people are obsessed with it.
For anything compiled, Jetbrains beats it 100:1, and for anything interpreted it's a couple tiers better than Kate.
Personally, I won't be losing sleep if I have to stop using VSCode.
VSCode is a modern emacs. Similar concept, a single editor to do everything via extensions. That's the selling point. "young people" never had the chance to work with a similar concept, this is why they found it so revolutionary (despite being a concept from the 70s).
I use it because I am forced to use a windows laptop at work, and emacs on windows is a painful experience
Young people don't want to spend precious time learning lisp just to configure their editor. I don't blame them.
Me neither, tbf. Although for vscode they use typescript and json. It is not so different, just more modern
The plugins are also more modern/user friendly and integrate better out of the box.
All these things make a difference.
Absolutely. It is a modern emacs. Emacs is from the 70s, vscode is 4 years old maybe.
VSCode integrates easily all new web technologies, although emacs still remains cleaner in some areas. For instance everything is a buffer completely customizable, while in vscode terminals, debuggers, left panels are "something else". In emacs everything is easily navigable in a coherent way with only keyboard. Vscode is not there yet. And creating plugins in lisp is surprisingly powerful.
The big advantage of vscode is chromium that is well integrated with all operating systems, and nowadays it is very easy to find people who know typescript (while almost impossible to find someone who knows lisp).
At the end, vscode is the successor of emacs, as any successor it tries to replicate the best features adding new and more modern