Hot take: VSCode is a terrible framework for an extensible IDE.
Discussion
If people don't mind clickity-clickity (mouse dependency), Zed is the best bet. Else, there is no second best to emacs.
Disagree, its amazing.
Zed is fast . Nice integration w goose too.
I use VSCodium for small projects, but JetBrains gets really good when you have to maintain large codebases. Yes, it consumes lots of ram/cpu but at the end gets the job done.
VSCode is not really an IDE, but if you are using a specific linguage and want have good tools and focusing on developing/debbuging you can use a True IDE. Example: Pytorch, InteliJ, and others.
Fun fact: I use VSCode as code editor everyday.