Emacs is my go-to when working on "lispy" projects such as Common Lisp, Scheme or Clojure. It's also my go-to for C/C++ projects. VSCode has become my go-to fo

Emacs is my go-to when working on "lispy" projects such as Common Lisp, Scheme or Clojure. It's also my go-to for C/C++ projects. VSCode has become my go-to for everything else. As with most things it's not a question of emacs or VSCode, it's both - and the knowledge of when to use each.