I think this is way too nitpicky. Yes Emacs differs from VsCode in that it's a much more 'live' environment due to the mentioned interactive lisp-like nature bu

I think this is way too nitpicky. Yes Emacs differs from VsCode in that it's a much more 'live' environment due to the mentioned interactive lisp-like nature but this isn't how you use emacs 99% of the time. People write their config, update it, they don't interactively hack on it all the time in ordinary use. The comparisons that Carmack made I think are largely correct. When I first stumbled over Dendron (https://www.dendron.so/ https://www.dendron.so/, great extension btw), was when I noticed that VSCode's extensibility is not unlike Emacs. And while there are no emacs "buffers" the interface is very uniform. You can seamlessly go from using say Dendron, to your debugger or your editor etc. And the command palette "everything is a command" flow also mirrors emacs M-x.