Emacs really is an automation tool for text buffers/palette, the fact that code is text too is just incidental. Other wise the kind of tasks emacs is better sui

Emacs really is an automation tool for text buffers/palette, the fact that code is text too is just incidental. Other wise the kind of tasks emacs is better suited for is changing text programmatically. While Emacs doesn't have intelligent code awareness out of the box the way vscode does, its powers lie in providing out of the box commands to easily manipulate text. To truly harness the power of emacs one has to get good good at thinking in terms of text. I tried org-mode but eventually realized emacs is actually restrictive when compared to using plain pen and paper. Emacs definitely has its use cases, and is really in some way the original Perl. Or at least the Perl equivalent of a text buffer.