I'm curious what the alternative you'd suggest here is, then. The options I'm aware of mostly clump into a few options that I like even less: Editors like emac

I'm curious what the alternative you'd suggest here is, then. The options I'm aware of mostly clump into a few options that I like even less: Editors like emacs and vim where getting plugins installed involves just as much of a scattered forest of different options with varying levels of quality and support, only the installation process is more manual. Also Eclipse fits here. IntelliJ or Visual Studio, which have great support for their primary languages, and plugin ecosystems that taper off very quickly (in terms of both quantity and quality) compared to vscode. Also, all your RAM are belong to us. Single-language IDEs like PyCharm or Flash Builder.