[spupy]

There's no point in comparing them, in my opinion. VS Code is a tool for programming; I would call it an IDE but I 'm not very familiar with the app. Vim is still "just an editor". You can still use it for programming (not just coding bash scripts), but that's making your life harder than it needs to be. In my experience the amazing text editing features of vim are only very rarely useful in a software developer's work. I feel the same about multiline editing though. And Vim has amazing text editing features, but severely lacking code editing features.

[Lio]

If you care for them vim has access to many of the same features as VSCode via LSP and the same plugins that VSCode uses.

Why would one be suitable for programming but not the other?

It just comes down to UI preference and whether you want to configure things yourself or not.

[maxnoe]

My (neo)vim can do more than vs code in default config.

Both support plugins, so the possibilities are basically endless