It depends on what you want and like. I like BBEdit more than Code despite Code arguably being more capable for, er, code, because -- at least for the way my brain works, apparently -- BBEdit is better at editing. Most of what I do with it is technical writing in Markdown.
Having said that, though, BBEdit 14's LSP integration closes the gap in coding for me sufficiently, at least for PHP and Elixir. And there are sort of quirky features like the Unix Worksheet, "text factories," and BBEdit 14's new notebook feature that I'm using a lot.
Yeah, I've used BBEdit for all 30 years and VSCode since it was pretty young.
BBEdit is my "i want all of my text files in separate windows" editor. I have it set that way on purpose. I do this mainly for my own spatial organization reason and the fact that I don't like the way BBEdit handles multiple files in one window. I've just started using the new Notes window, and it is a nice implementation that I've been using at work to keep track of dev projects, one note for each project. Very nice and no manual saving needed.
VSCode is still open all the time for IDE purposes. I need the refactoring capabilities and I would find it really hard to live without GitLens, to be honest. I also really, really like file tabs across the top for development! I'm not really sure why BBEdit never implemented this.
To the question, VSCode is missing a bunch of the cool "text-edity" features that I love about BBEdit. All of the stuff in the "Text..." menu, that is. I'm sure you can get all these things with various VSCode plugins, but I don't want to have to go find all of these things. I just want them there. So for now, it's both open pretty much all day!
For me, I like that a lot of the text manipulation stuff I use is built-in to BBEdit, compared to VSCode where a lot of that responsibility is pushed off to extensions where the quality or consistency can be variable.
One example is hard wrap (like for git commit messages). It seems crazy to me that that’s a third party thing and not built in to VSCode.
