My take with VS Code is that their support of development container and ssh is the best and it's a killer feature.
My ultimate goal for quite sometime now was to pack all my development dependencies inside containers or cloud-init files to keep my host bare-bone and have reproducible/shareable setups anywhere anytime.
Before I was an Emacs fan. I tried multiple combination of Emacs, Tramp and containers but it failed: there always was a package that didn't played well and kept looking for stuff at the wrong location. After a while, I was fed up to make low-level fixes in random packages. I also tried weird setup with Nix for the same exact bad result.
It just worked. The experience was flawless. In a matter of second, it blew the competition away like nothing.
Nowadays, I cannot live happier: I clone the repo i need to work. It comes with a development Dockerfile. VS Code starts the container and everything is there for working. If I need a beefier host, I spin up a cloud VM with cloud-init and 5 minute later the setup is ready without any manual intervention. Any extension I tried in marketplace worked.
In my opinion, the Emacs/Vim communities clearly missed a golden opportunity for a more larger adoption.
My ultimate goal for quite sometime now was to pack all my development dependencies inside containers or cloud-init files to keep my host bare-bone and have reproducible/shareable setups anywhere anytime. Before I was an Emacs fan. I tried multiple combination of Emacs, Tramp and containers but it failed: there always was a package that didn't played well and kept looking for stuff at the wrong location. After a while, I was fed up to make low-level fixes in random packages. I also tried weird setup with Nix for the same exact bad result.
So I took my nerd pride away and tried VS Code with containers and ssh: - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
It just worked. The experience was flawless. In a matter of second, it blew the competition away like nothing. Nowadays, I cannot live happier: I clone the repo i need to work. It comes with a development Dockerfile. VS Code starts the container and everything is there for working. If I need a beefier host, I spin up a cloud VM with cloud-init and 5 minute later the setup is ready without any manual intervention. Any extension I tried in marketplace worked.
In my opinion, the Emacs/Vim communities clearly missed a golden opportunity for a more larger adoption.