As others have said, it definitely is not. VS Code is somewhere between Emacs and Visual Studio. Not quite as configurable as Emacs, not as tied down as Visual

As others have said, it definitely is not. VS Code is somewhere between Emacs and Visual Studio. Not quite as configurable as Emacs, not as tied down as Visual Studio. VS Code is my editor of choice today and part of that is that they actively try to keep extension authors from destroying the editor, like what happened to Atom. Emacs does not do any sort of hand-holding and so it provides a more customizable experience at the expense of, in my opinion, ease of use. I only used Emacs for about a month before switching over to VS Code so take what I say with a grain of salt.