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It's a little more tightly coupled than just a file system; it's essentially a fully headless mode.

• mixmastamyk 7y ago
  Tightly coupled is often not desirable.
  • pkaye 7y ago
    the VSCode SSH extension runs the editing process remotely so it doesn't need to transfer the entire file.
    • mixmastamyk 7y ago
      That could be helpful, text files are often tiny though.
    • ubercow13 7y ago
      It's not really clear that that would be faster... sshfs would load the file once (maybe slow, but it's usually a tiny text file) and then do all editing locally in memory. If the editing process is remote, every edit you make is going to involve round trips over the network? That sounds awful?
      • mixmastamyk 7y ago
        Maybe but folks have been using vim/ssh since the days of vi/telnet. It’s not a problem under normal conditions.
      • pkaye 7y ago
        Its closer to vi over ssh.
      • streb-lo 7y ago
        If you're doing C++ in VSCode the C++ extension will use ripgrep to index your project. When using sshfs, rg runs on the local machine, causing sshfs to load your entire project which if it's large can really slow you down. The VSCode remote extension installs extensions onto a VSCode remote client installed on the remote machine. So the C++ extensions spawns rg processes on the remote which is a lot faster.