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zed's great but they need to prioritise remote ssh like vscode. literally the main way most people do dev

Gonna need a citation on that. I _highly_ doubt most developers write code across a secure shell.

Not "most" but certainly many. I love remote dev (via Remote Containers in VSCode) for large C++ codebases (which could not even compile on my Macbook because of different architecture). Running `clangd` LSP on my local machine would be a nightmare (it could easily eat dozens of CPU cores and tens of gb of RAM when indexing), but on remote workstation it is a breeze. Also I could work on multiple branches simultaneously, spinning multiple VMs and running VSCode remotely on them. So basically my Mac is just a typewriter and everything heavy happens on a remote VM — isn't it nice?

I'm not sure that claim is correct, but could you describe what that setup looks like, and the benefits? A link to something more is also fine

I have never tried the remote ssh setup (even though vscodium is my primary editor). I don't know anyone who uses it daily, and I've never heard anyone irl mention doing it. I think you're slightly biased here by your experience, and assume everyone shares it.

Edit: hell, I've wanted to check remote ssh in vscodium now to know what I'm missing, and it looks like they basically contain MS DRM and are only compatible with official vscode. License is also proprietary[1] and makes it impossible to use it with vscodium or other OSS projects. Yikes.

[1]: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/wiki/Extensions-Compati...

> literally the main way most people do dev

not correct at all

Almost no one uses remote SSH to do development.

It's how I do it since my workstation has way more resources.

Huh? I haven't seen remote SSH used in the past few companies I've worked at. Usually it's a local docker setup.

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