TL;DR It is already, for the good and for the bad. probably the best thing that come from Microsoft in decades update: has momentum, a huge marketing budget

TL;DR It is already, for the good and for the bad. probably the best thing that come from Microsoft in decades update: has momentum, a huge marketing budget (helps) and the cost of entry way lower than emacs' one (typescript ecosystem a fair bit less exotic than lisps'). performance is OK, really. i remember more than 20yrs ago when one had to use vi, micro emacs and lesser options because emacs was then the resource hog. at same age / stage vscode is way less hungry than emacs then...