Not quite. You are able to extend VSCode using TS/JS for sure, but it is not even remotely customizable to the extent that emacs is. There is definitely ample

Not quite. You are able to extend VSCode using TS/JS for sure, but it is not even remotely customizable to the extent that emacs is. There is definitely ample room for a hacker-centric text editor with a minimal core where every aspect of UI and behavior can be customizable through TS. This is not really a criticism of VSCode. If you want to prevent the kind of cross-extension conflicts and unstability that has plagued emacs since forever, a restricted extension runtime is absolutely the best way to go. But there are certainly people who would want to *build* an editor uniquely tailored to their preferences out of low level blocks and deal with the complexity associated therein. Atom was expected to fill that niche, but it's web based UI is too slow for most large projects.