I'm using IDEA and VSCode in conjunction (for Kotlin and Typescript respectively) and I find them equal in power. Maybe I'm not a power user, but I reached a point where they even look the same (more or less).
There are 2 minor differences I experience very often: VCCode is blazingly fast compared to IDEA, and VSCode has much more quality plugins than IDEA (at least for those things that interest me).
I'd compare VSCode to Emacs in a sense that the architecture is really simple (all you have is functions that do something) which makes VSCode more appealing to prospective plugin developers.
I'd even go so far as to say that to me VSCode becomes the new Emacs.
There are 2 minor differences I experience very often: VCCode is blazingly fast compared to IDEA, and VSCode has much more quality plugins than IDEA (at least for those things that interest me).
I'd compare VSCode to Emacs in a sense that the architecture is really simple (all you have is functions that do something) which makes VSCode more appealing to prospective plugin developers.
I'd even go so far as to say that to me VSCode becomes the new Emacs.