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That's interesting, I don't find VSCode slow at all, even when working on large workspaces via SSH over a high latency link.

Sure, there are native editors that are snappier, but not to the point that affect my productivity in any way.

The one thing that VSCode does not handle well is large files (e.g. DB dumps, large JSONs, logfiles), but for coding, it really is not an issue.

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As a rather vocal user of Sublime Text 4, VS Code is an order of magnitude slower on basic UI interaction.

I eventually switched to VS Code but I miss immediate highlighting and extremely fast start times. It's very close to TextEdit launch speeds. VS Code crawls by comparison.

The only reason I'm using VS Code is the plugin system is way better.

What plugin are you using to open workspaces via SSH?

They are probably using "Remote - SSH" by the VSCode team. It was a big part of what convinced me to switch from Pycharm. That and being able to work on C++ code from the same tool.

Just the standard Remote-SSH

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

There is a Microsoft-built plugin called Remote - SSH, which fits into a group called "Remote Development" that includes WSL and Docker versions. It basically runs most of vscode on the remote, and feels just as fast as local on a decent connection. Most of the heavy lifting is done on the remote so things like full project searches, or linting, etc not having to go through ssh to access the files.

I use it for almost all of my development. I launch an ec2 instance with my projects and all of my code and data stays in my dev vpc. I can connect from my laptop or workstation and I can spin up extra dev environments if I am working on multiple projects. Plus, since the projects usually involve a pretty big data set, i don't have to download that locally and it can be replicated quickly within the vpc for each dev environment.

The SSH extension even knows how to forward ports back and you can add/remove port forwards from the vscode ui.

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