Right, I suppose it depends on your use case. For most of mine, my local machine has all the tooling, and I simply want to sync the files to a remote machine fo

Right, I suppose it depends on your use case. For most of mine, my local machine has all the tooling, and I simply want to sync the files to a remote machine for deployment. But if you want to do all development remotely, then TRAMP might be the way to go.