Ultimately this comes down to the communities. The Emacs community, although perhaps lacking the sheer number of vscode users, is incredible. There are folks l

Ultimately this comes down to the communities. The Emacs community, although perhaps lacking the sheer number of vscode users, is incredible. There are folks like Henrik Lissner who are almost pathologically addicted to making Emacs awesome, not to mention the myriad other folks who escape my mind at the moment. The vscode community is mostly full of valiant, short-lived one-person projects and things maintained by large companies. I must admit that for working with Azure, I do switch to vscode because the integration (e.g. for the ARM templates) is awesome. Emacs has the better community for the long run (and has the track record to prove it), but I do wonder about the technical limitations of Emacs, mostly revolving around the quirkiness of elisp that Emacs is mostly married to at the moment. You can listen to Henrik discuss this here [0]. I experience some hickups when using Doom emacs, mostly when projects get big and the tooltip stuff has to render many options. Still, this is well worth it for the amazing benefits of Org mode, Org Roam, Org-ref, etc. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKegZI9vWUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKegZI9vWUU