> to buy-in to the Lisp language to even get going with Emacs. It just doesn't compete with the ease-of-use of data / declarative configuration of VSCode's JSON

> to buy-in to the Lisp language to even get going with Emacs. It just doesn't compete with the ease-of-use of data / declarative configuration of VSCode's JSON approach, hmm... do you know about M-x customize ? > Node development environment running inside a container with VSCode. I don't even know if you can do that with Emacs to begin with. Install docker-tramp.el and then `C-x C-f /docker:image_name: RET` to open a dired buffer in the container. `M-x shell RET` for a shell in container. Use this often? Make a bookmark with `C-x r m bookmark name RET`, then next time get to it from your bookmark list accessible with `C-x r b`.