> They just copy their init.el/vimrc to the server, Emacs/Vim users have been able to do this (coding on remote environments without all the kludges) since forever ;) and personally, I find it superior to vscoce's remote plugin since your editor and tools sit on the same machine.
Unfortunately this doesn't work well if your connection has a high latency though, which I think is what VScode does really well.
did you ever try this? or is this just something which you think should be it's distinguishing feature?
Asking mainly because I think this is cool, but the whole setup (lots of random binaries in the server) is not so different to an AppImage of emacs+xpra (if you could do tha) and the times I tried, the thing was _very_ picky about connection losses/timeouts...
Yes, I did try this and although I don't particularly need remote editing, the fact that it took me less than 2 minutes to setup a remote editor with auto-complete and other IDE features was pretty amazing.
Unfortunately this doesn't work well if your connection has a high latency though, which I think is what VScode does really well.