A modern Emacs would look like VSCode with an API that was lower level, with less built-in UI, a focus on pure text buffers, and incubated for a few years to bu

A modern Emacs would look like VSCode with an API that was lower level, with less built-in UI, a focus on pure text buffers, and incubated for a few years to build out more of a framework so every extension doesn’t feel completely unrelated. It’s unlikely VSCode will become that, but it’s even more unlikely to be a text editor pitched to Vim users.