I currently use intellij for java work (because my employer pays for the license) but for most any other type of editing I use emacs. I'd be interested to see what other emacs users think of vscode.
As an editor, VSCode is still inferior (but improving at lightspeed). As an out-of-the-box experience, it blows almost everything else out of the water. Against my customized Spacemacs, it's still struggling.
But that renderer is gorgeous!
But I started to use it more because the autocompletion is nice. It's not perfect, but out-of-the-box experience is nicer.
After a few months though working in it, I want to go back to Emacs, and as such, Emacs is usually running. Magit for example, or being able to split your screen up as needed, or quickly jumping between files, etc. is something that is burnt into my brain. VScode is terrible at these things.
I am watching the lsp-mode and lsp-ui projects. They seem promising because it answers a concern I have : I need to float between projects in different languages and want the typical set of IDE-like features in each one. It would be nice to have a single set of keybindings regardless of language, which vscode excels at now. VScode has a good debugging story out-of-the-box lsp-ui is promising because it is implementing vscode-like features (like peek mode).
I am expecting to slowly move out of emacs for my coding in the next few months.
Emacs will be kept because I have a lot of org-mode files to manage my company at a higher level (lot of tables with formulas to calculate several key indicators). On the longer term, they could be moved as Python notebooks with the rendering in VS Code.
So yes, I do think this is the editor which is going to move a lot of old coders out of emacs/vi/vim.
PS: The added bonus is that I easily get support of Go, Typescript, etc. without the need to "debug my editor". Just install the right extension, done.
I can't even tell you how hard that was with VIM.
That certainly seems a possibility, though I expect it may be somewhat dependent upon the language used, and whether the community around that language invests enough effort to develop vscode plugins for that language.
One reason is that I kind of like the separation between Emacs for org-mode and another tool for development.
Another is that VSCode just kind of 'clicks' with my approach. As a freelancer, I often work on multiple projects at the same time. I can have various VSCode projects open, each with its own terminal processes.
I find myself still using Emacs for TRAMP stuff (remote SFTP editing of files) occasionally, but somehow using Emacs for properly working on projects never quite 'clicked' the way VSCode did. It's possible that I just haven't gotten comfortable enough with it yet, but so far I'm really loving the Emacs/VSCode setup. And I still occasionally use Sublime Text for one-off editing of bigger files.
Switch from vim to emacs is obvious. Switch from emacs to sublime was triggered by moving from Linux to MacOS (my Thinkpad was failing after diving in a tropical rain so I bought a brand new MacBook).