On: VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

[sunshowers]

That doesn't work if the remote is a different platform or architecture. Also, part of the point of running remotely is to do compute on the remote (often a powerful workstation or server), not locally.

You can use sshfs if you like. But there are many use cases where you have to do things remotely.

[Dylan16807 → sunshowers]

I'm just talking about the language server. Obviously it's great to do the real compiling remotely.

How often is my local machine going to have trouble running that? Having all that extra latency and bandwidth when I type sounds annoying.

[sunshowers → Dylan16807]

For languages like Rust, the language server does compilations — it has to run on the remote because it has to know about OS/arch-specific details.

There's a bit of latency between when you type and when the language server shows or hides the squigglies. But it's less than the time it takes to compile stuff anyway.