> VS Code is not an IDE, it's more like the evolved GUI-Version of Emacs. "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers.

> VS Code is not an IDE, it's more like the evolved GUI-Version of Emacs. "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." Interesting way to get an acknowledgement that IDEs aren't as advanced as Emacs, I suppose, and that VSCode (as in Man Vs Code, one of the Basic Plots) is only partway to being Emacs, being a GUI version (simplification) of the core concept, as if Emacs didn't already have a GUI. (Having a GUI being different from depending on a GUI, but baby steps... ) > And it's now 9 years old, so I would think it has established itself well for this decade. But no guarantees about the next decade.