Nothing of the sort. We can discuss how Emacs and VSCode compare to each other (and we can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of VSCode taking the electr

Nothing of the sort. We can discuss how Emacs and VSCode compare to each other (and we can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of VSCode taking the electron approach until we're blue in the face), but VSCode is definitely not trying to compete with Emacs, rather aiming for a very different user base. However, this article isn't even about VS Code proper. It's about Debug Adapter Protocol. If DAP achieves the same adoption as LSP, this will be a huge move forward in developer tooling across all sorts of tech stacks and domains. In between LSP and DAP, just about any editor is capable of becoming a lightweight IDE for an enormous variety of languages, and this is a Good Thing for everybody.