Emacs selling point is that you can easily change any part of editor. You can introspect it, you can test your changes in the repl and commit them into your con

Emacs selling point is that you can easily change any part of editor. You can introspect it, you can test your changes in the repl and commit them into your config file. And that happens almost immediately as you're starting to learn Emacs. I did not experience that workflow with vscode. It's more like vim for me and Emacs stands on its own.