> If emacs is so much more extensible, why is there so much better language support for mainstream languages in VSCode? Writing language support like refactori

> If emacs is so much more extensible, why is there so much better language support for mainstream languages in VSCode? Writing language support like refactoring and stuff is a huge task, and emacs has a handful of volunteer maintainers, unlike the other tools you mention which have corporate backing behind them with programmers paid to add such support. So emacs could have the same level of support if companies would pay teams for years to develop such features. But we have language servers now, because it became obvious there is no need to reimplement such support for every editor separately when a server can answer these requests. Microsoft created LSP for Vscode, but it can be used by any other editor, and emacs too has language server support. I haven't tried it yet, but with LSP it can support the same language features as vscode.