I highly recommend modern Emacs over VSCode. If you don't want to tinker, Emacs has multiple levels of preconfigured distributions like Prelude, Nano, and Doom Emacs that give the same out of the box working experience. Modern Emacs includes all of the great features of VSCode, plus much more. You get things like:
- LSP support for completion, refactoring, listing.
- Tree sitter support for super fast highlighting.
- File supporter just like VSCodes.
- Project management tools.
- Fuzzing finding for everything, including files, commands, and buffers.
- Probably the best git client out there (magit). It's seriously magical.
- Terminals (can pipe terminal contents directly into other buffers).
- DAP mode for debugging, ctags, cscope.
It's all FOSS, worked on by a non-profit foundation and volunteers, it can be used as a GUI or in the terminal, and it's insanely extensible thanks to it being a small C core running a lisp environment. Lisp is easy to learn and fun, and if you don't like lisp there's still a bazillion more packages you can install for extra features.
- LSP support for completion, refactoring, listing.
- Tree sitter support for super fast highlighting.
- File supporter just like VSCodes.
- Project management tools.
- Fuzzing finding for everything, including files, commands, and buffers.
- Probably the best git client out there (magit). It's seriously magical.
- Terminals (can pipe terminal contents directly into other buffers).
- DAP mode for debugging, ctags, cscope.
It's all FOSS, worked on by a non-profit foundation and volunteers, it can be used as a GUI or in the terminal, and it's insanely extensible thanks to it being a small C core running a lisp environment. Lisp is easy to learn and fun, and if you don't like lisp there's still a bazillion more packages you can install for extra features.