It might very well be, except the plugins are more difficult to write in VS Code. On the joke side, Emacs also started out as a resource hungry beast, just lik

It might very well be, except the plugins are more difficult to write in VS Code. On the joke side, Emacs also started out as a resource hungry beast, just like VS Code now. Emacs feels to me a bit more extensible, and does a number of things better than VS Code (e.g., can cut rectangles, better shortcuts, regexp support, and others).