I think this is the future of emacs -- distributions/configs. I'm doom emacs user, and I'm very happy with it. It's an easy and pleasant transition for vim users and it works well out of the box, while still giving you the option to customize it to your heart's desire.
There's no way that emacs will ever reach VS Code's level of popularity, but it doesn't need to. Desktop Linux, for instance, represents a teeny-tiny share of the desktop OS market, but it's a vibrant community (or communities, really) that's constantly improving the software and desktop linux user's will let you pry the OS from their cold dead hands. Not everything needs to have an 80% market share to succeed.
There's no way that emacs will ever reach VS Code's level of popularity, but it doesn't need to. Desktop Linux, for instance, represents a teeny-tiny share of the desktop OS market, but it's a vibrant community (or communities, really) that's constantly improving the software and desktop linux user's will let you pry the OS from their cold dead hands. Not everything needs to have an 80% market share to succeed.