BBEdit is an incredible text editor. If you are working with text on macOS, it's hard to beat. But, I've struggled to use it for even basic programming work. It's just not built for that specific use case so much as general text manipulation.
For core programming work I found Vim/Emacs superior to BBEdit, and ultimately settled on Emacs because of Magit[+] and my proclivity for Lisp/Scheme. I switch to VS Code when I need/want to use its JS debugger combined with its "cadillac experience" re: TypeScript and JavaScript.
Even so, depending on the use case, giving BBEdit a shot is probably worth the download and time spent — it's a great dev tool and I've never regretted paying for the license and upgrades. For example, BBEdit has been invaluable to me in recent years when trying to sort out broken webpack builds and I needed to efficiently hunt through multi-MB .js output files.