I'd say that learning vanilla Emacs and all the internals is probably not worth it.

But if you'd like to try out Emacs, have a look at Doom Emacs or Spacemacs - then you can still use vim keybindings for most stuff.

And just activating some of the included modules will give you enough to easily try out some of the best emacs packages out there.

I wouldn't bother setting up emacs for programming, but org-mode is amazing.