[m-n]

> emacs is by now quite inferior to VSCode for most things; what you get out of the box with vscode beats laborious customization by expert hands

I find it interesting that this statement is hard for me, a daily emacs user who has loosely followed and lightly tried VSCode, to assess.

VSCode's pair programming stuff looks like it could pull me over if I was on a team of people using it.

From a language integration standpoint I'm probably hitting the same lsp server the VSCode user is, probably getting the same red squiggles from the same compiler and linter. Emacs has always been competent enough at general text editing. I enjoy using the Emacs git client Magit.

It's not clear how to compare the amount of time I've spent configuring Emacs over the years to what I would have spent learning new environments if I had been swapping editors instead.