I was an avid emacs user for almost a decade and it only 2 a week with VSCode for me to jump ship completely. The issue I had with Emacs is that while could ge

I was an avid emacs user for almost a decade and it only 2 a week with VSCode for me to jump ship completely. The issue I had with Emacs is that while could get it to do anything, often it took a lot of time. I would often end up spending an entire afternoon or Sunday tinkering with my config to get set up to develop in a new language. Whe I adopted VSCode it took about 20 minutes - install a plug in, set some config. I had a better setup for Elixir in a text editor I had never used before in minutes, after having spend hours achieving an inferior result in Emacs. The reason for this basically comes down to abstraction levels in a couple of places. Language support in VSCode is at the 'plugin' level whereas in emacs you usually have to assemble several pieces. Partly this is achievable because VSCode made their own life easy pushing the hard work of language support out using the language protocol. Its widespread adoption in a relatively short time is a great benefit to everyone (emacs included).