Ask HN: Could VSCode be the new Emacs?
(personal bias:  i&#x27;ve been using emacs for about 20 years, though I don&#x27;t know elisp and I have very mildly customized dotfiles)<p>I want to process and respond to this question, but I can&#x27;t get past:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s slow (I have i7 with 4 cores and 32Gb of RAM)...<p>Consider that you must be doing something deeply wrong?  I have a broadwell (2015) i7, 2 cores, 16GB of ram (8 of which is reserved), and Emacs is quite fast.<p>I tried to use VSCode once, around when it came out.  It was a pathetic joke.  Once you manage to stop laughing at the concept of using an editor, hosted in a webbrowser, written in javascript, you were able to enjoy exactly the performance you would expect from such an &quot;application&quot;.<p>I couldn&#x27;t type more than a few lines before the high latency, and the fact that I could feel my CPU heating up, gave me all the info I needed.<p>What&#x27;s VSCode for??   I don&#x27;t do much (any) UI work, so I&#x27;d believe you if that&#x27;s its strength, but.. an editor????  
I doubt it!<p>Having noticeable latency between keystrokes and requiring huge amounts of system resources make it kinda ... hard to take seriously.