You can do all the things you mentioned in Vim. I also can't imagine that you would be comparing the performance of VSCode and Vim, my vim with all of its plugins and vim script starts up in 95ms. That's faster than the threshold of human perception.
I think you missed the point of my comment you are replying to. You can get things done in any editor. The point is that Vim/Emacs have been around for decades and last your whole career, VSCode has been around for a fraction of the time and killed off the previous editor, Atom, that everyone though was "the editor".
I think you missed the point of my comment you are replying to. You can get things done in any editor. The point is that Vim/Emacs have been around for decades and last your whole career, VSCode has been around for a fraction of the time and killed off the previous editor, Atom, that everyone though was "the editor".