If you are using Windows, and you don't know either editor, I would go with Vim because it's easier to learn and it works better in Windows. But if you want to

If you are using Windows, and you don't know either editor, I would go with Vim because it's easier to learn and it works better in Windows. But if you want to get up to speed quickly, I would go with VS Code. Both Vim and Emacs take a while to learn enough to make it worth using. VS Code doesn't take as long to get to that point.