I'm a diehard Emacs (+evil) user, and I tried VS Code for a few months. It really is quite good. Here are the few detractors that brought me back to Emacs as

I'm a diehard Emacs (+evil) user, and I tried VS Code for a few months. It really is quite good. Here are the few detractors that brought me back to Emacs as my primary editor. Lousy macro support from the Vim emulator. Evil is still leaps-and-bounds above anything else (possibly Vim itself). Flexibility of split windows. I like to view multiple files side-by-side. From my experience, Emacs and Vim have the best support for split panes; whereas VS Code and JetBrains editors have the worst. VS Code has nothing like Magit. In my time with VS Code, I would keep Emacs open in another space for git.