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Running an unknown app on a trusted remote server under your local user account - not a good idea! Just keep it local on your own machine.

Your editor can handle everything way faster locally, plus it can grab files with SSH’s built-in (and mature to the point of being ancient!) capabilities: caching, compression, and instant text file downloads over an open connection. You can even check for remote file changes using stat.

Even better, use sshfs or another FUSE option.

There’s a ton you can do with plain SSH alone. This whole running-a-remote-server idea is, frankly, puzzling.




I guess the reason to run the IDE on the server is so that the IDE can inspect the whole (potentially huge) codebase and provide LSP features like code completion & go-to definition, and AI assistance etc.




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