[chairfield]

> The case for vim is simple: a quick editing of a file when you might not have a window manager up or on a terminal.

That, and the power of its keybindings.

> I don't see many reasons to learn Emacs when VSC, Atom or other editors exist.

I think evil-mode, org-mode, dired, and magit, make a pretty compelling case for Emacs to fit into many programmer's workflows, even if it doesn't displace their code editor or IDE outright.

Though even setting up just those packages requires quite a bit of configuration.