Hey everyone!

I was just wondering why one would use any of the programs I mentioned above instead of VS Code to write Code.

Can someone give me a brief overview of the advantages?

Thanks in advance!

    • lemmyng@beehaw.org
      13·
      1 year ago

      There’s a long list of caveats when running VS Code over SSH. By comparison, text editors:

      • Work on Alpine remotes
      • Work on older distributions, and other *NIX systems
      • Have no problems with SSH key passphrases or security keys
      • Only require a few MB of memory
      • When run in tmux are largely resilient to SSH connection issues
    • Swiggles
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yea, no. It doesn’t work with ssh agent and it cannot read includes and other configuration options. I believe it also tries to install some components remotely which is bad enough, but causes additional issues in environments with proxies or without internet access at all. Iirc also plugins must be installed remotely to work.

      In a normal professional context it just does not work and it is a hassle to deal with. It might work in a home lab, but nowhere beyond that.