The speed to 'first development environment' (lol) is a day and night difference between VSC and Emacs. VSC is faster to setup by several orders of magnitude (e

The speed to 'first development environment' (lol) is a day and night difference between VSC and Emacs. VSC is faster to setup by several orders of magnitude (even if you know Emacs). Overall I believe you can get the same functionality, if less customizable, in VSC. I can't remember the last time by VSC configuration broke. I guess there isn't much to break in it.