The remoting extensions for remoting over SSH, into Docker, and into WSL are really killer features. Nothing else has the same workflow and ease of use or even comes close, to my knowledge.
The other thing is that Visual Studio Code generally just works and gets me to writing code without issues. I came to it after trying to give Emacs a try after multiple times of doing so. I could sort of wrangle Emacs to do what I needed it to do, but I was having to write code for Emacs and search forums and poor documentation on how to do so, and even then, it was buggy. Switching to Visual Studio Code took just a few minutes of installing a couple of extensions, and then I was off writing code.
It is a little bit slow and sluggish at times, but it isn't an issue at the moment.
The .devcontainer integration is also pretty slick. Pull a repository, open Visual Studio Code, and it will open up in a Docker container with your environment all configured and ready to go.
The other thing is that Visual Studio Code generally just works and gets me to writing code without issues. I came to it after trying to give Emacs a try after multiple times of doing so. I could sort of wrangle Emacs to do what I needed it to do, but I was having to write code for Emacs and search forums and poor documentation on how to do so, and even then, it was buggy. Switching to Visual Studio Code took just a few minutes of installing a couple of extensions, and then I was off writing code.
It is a little bit slow and sluggish at times, but it isn't an issue at the moment.
The .devcontainer integration is also pretty slick. Pull a repository, open Visual Studio Code, and it will open up in a Docker container with your environment all configured and ready to go.