[microcolonel]

I don't really see why you would write any lisp in an editor that isn't Emacs. Visual Studio Code is very capable... of jumping in to a hot loop periodically to crash or require you to kill it, sapping your battery at idle, and making rookie mistakes long-since corrected by the 40-year editors.

If I were looking to replace Emacs, replicating CIDER is a tall order, especially CIDER over TRAMP. Tell me when you can automatically shell into your high-memory remote machine with an editor running locally, and get a full REPL with inline evaluation on the remote machine.. and it "just works" (i.e. install the package from MELPA, and it works out of the box).