Emacs has been around for over 40 years now, VSCode and Atom for less than 5 I think. There are many great things about VSCode et al, things that Emacs doesn't

Emacs has been around for over 40 years now, VSCode and Atom for less than 5 I think. There are many great things about VSCode et al, things that Emacs doesn't have and likely won't anytime soon (mostly envious about the Blink rendering engine). I've considered switching but I'm not convinced it'll still be the best in a few years. I could totally see someone making another web-tech based editor that has a more universalistic design like Emacs. I'm still hoping somebody will fork Emacs and figure out how to bolt a nicer renderer, threading[0] and better GC onto it. That said if you haven't already bought into any ecosystem I think VS is a great choice. [0] this one is not realistic I guess but whatever