> In my experience, most IDE users don’t know that Emacs is effectively an IDE that can do all of the same things, and even more
A programmable editor can, by programming (and in many cases, this means using modules others have programmed) become a Development Environment both more powerful and more adapted to your particular use than any available Integrated Development Environment, but it's not an IDE because no vendor integrated it for you (though sometimes, rather than collecting small modules of your own, you can get a pre-integrated set of modules for a particular use for a programmable editor, and that is exactly an IDE.)
> Emacs still feels 1000x more modern to me than any IDE, especially VS Code
VS Code, like Emacs, is a programmable editor, not an IDE. (though I guess it's built-in, first party tooling for certain languages makes it a very light IDE for them.)
I program my Emacs for very basic stuff, but very specialized for projects. For other developers (even who use VSCode) it's black magick. I think Emacs has also a culture of tinkering.
A programmable editor can, by programming (and in many cases, this means using modules others have programmed) become a Development Environment both more powerful and more adapted to your particular use than any available Integrated Development Environment, but it's not an IDE because no vendor integrated it for you (though sometimes, rather than collecting small modules of your own, you can get a pre-integrated set of modules for a particular use for a programmable editor, and that is exactly an IDE.)
> Emacs still feels 1000x more modern to me than any IDE, especially VS Code
VS Code, like Emacs, is a programmable editor, not an IDE. (though I guess it's built-in, first party tooling for certain languages makes it a very light IDE for them.)