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I spent 25 years using emacs before vscode (1997 to 2022-ish). I didn't go deep, I mostly just enjoyed the core parts of emacs + ccmode. I don't enjoy LISP but I still enjoy emacs, if that makes any sense.

MS made some very real and very usable innovations. Emacs hackers/maintainers would be wise to copy them, like I'm sure Microsoft copied things from emacs.

It's a bit like the UI aspect of the browser wars. Everyone wins when good things are cloned and then iteratively improved upon.

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datadrivenangel 21 hours ago | parent [-]

What are the ways that VScode is better than Emacs?

	▲	baq 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		vscode does three things extremely well: defaults, defaults and defaults. The most important ‘you just need M-x do-whatever after installing the whatever-doer package’ is supported out of the box (no details on purpose, try running emacs or vim without any config and compare to a clean fresh install of vscode).
	▲	lysace 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I listed my favorites above. Generalizing it: Having smart people who really understand UX helps a lot with minimizing those months of pain before the payoff.