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This appears to be a significantly better implementation. Tramp mode is god awful slow and does not maintain a persistent connection.
The default setup is pretty crappy but with some tweaking of the ssh connection setup, It does a decent job and I used it for actual work for several years.
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For what it's worth; Visual Studio Code and VSCode are not the same. VSCode is MIT licensed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt From vscodium.com: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code ma…
What I find unfortunate is that VSCode and Visual Studio Code are so conflated. It's Visual Studio Code in the context of features, it's vscode in the context of license and community. In this sense Zed is much cleaner as to what's up for for monetization. You look at the project and you know which parts will be candidates for business growth and which parts will stay in the community. With Visual Studio Code, the en…
I also switch between a lot of computers (work computer at home/work computer at work) but have to develop on "big powerful machine at work". My current solution is tmux + nvim and it works really good. I can just pickup a session from whatever computer I'm in front of at the moment. Am I correct in that neither Zed nor VS Code support this usecase yet?
I use VSCode + SSH remote for this and works great. The only nitpick I have is needing to manually reconnect when I suspend my laptop and ssh connection breaks. It's a separate session though, which doesn't matter to me but may be a deal breaker for you. I use Tailscale for a personal VPN so the beefy workstation is always securely available from my laptop, even when across the pond).
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I use VSCode + SSH remote for this and works great. The only nitpick I have is needing to manually reconnect when I suspend my laptop and ssh connection breaks. It's a separate session though, which doesn't matter to me but may be a deal breaker for you. I use Tailscale for a personal VPN so the beefy workstation is always securely available from my laptop, even when across the pond).
10 years ago I was using https://mosh.org/ to sutomatically reconnect ssh sessions.
Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it. Poorly, in worse languages. —C.S. Santayana Emacs TRAMP mode has been doing this for 26 years, since November 1998. Fashions come, and fashions go, and Emacs remains. Anyone remember Atom? Anyone remember TextMate? Just use vi or Emacs.
It's pretty funny you'd comment this at the same time there's a thread on the front page with people complaining about emacs bugs/performance issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954030
Is that really the best we can do? Should we have frozen tech in 1998 with our 28.8kbps modems and stopped trying to improve anything ever again? Why did you switch to this emacs fad when you could have stuck with ed(1)?
I think it's great that people are advancing the state of the art. Good for Zed.
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As long as that is notified and correctly authenticated, it is a reasonable approach because the remote process can progress without having to send the whole workspace through SSH. I also expect most language servers would have to be on remote for the same reason.
It's not a reasonable approach because these binary blobs they're installing are guaranteed to be non-functional unless the target OS somehow happens to be the exact distribution and version the binary blob developers are testing for. (You could theoretically make a truly portable and hermetic binary blob with something like WASM, but I guarantee you this black magic is not accessible to IDE developers.)
> Unlike our normal Linux builds, the remote server can be compiled with musl, which requires no dynamic linking. This lets it work on older distros (where before we ran into compatibility problems with glibc) and on modern share-nothing distros like Nix that don't have a global set of libraries to dynamically link.
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I use VSCode + SSH remote for this and works great. The only nitpick I have is needing to manually reconnect when I suspend my laptop and ssh connection breaks. It's a separate session though, which doesn't matter to me but may be a deal breaker for you. I use Tailscale for a personal VPN so the beefy workstation is always securely available from my laptop, even when across the pond).
10 years ago I was using https://mosh.org/ to sutomatically reconnect ssh sessions.
I multiplex my ssh connections so the workflow is just ssh sgain, then reload VSCode window. If Mosh could multiplex these (and paper over the connection problems) that'd be great but after a cursory look, it doesn't look like it's possible.
It's a minor thing tho.
In general, I quite like Mosh! If I routinely had to work on faraway servers I'd use mosh just for its smart local echo.
Zed with SSH Remoting and Orbstack is pretty much my dream setup for programming on a Mac. I can now spin up a Linux machine in Orbstack[0] in a few seconds and then SSH into it from Zed for a fast Linux development environment with a fast macOS native editor. It feels a bit like the macOS version of WSL and VSCode. Just a whole lot nicer (subjective of course)! A couple of years ago I was inspired by what Mitchell H…
I understood Mitchell intent for his setup to be slightly different than what you described. I understood it as him running Nixos/nix because it made having a reproducible development setup a breeze since it’s all just a config file. How would his use of Nixos change as you imply with Zed/SSH?
How are people so happy with Zed? I've tried it, it's fast sure, but it lacks some very essential features like inline error highlighting and button for running code like how Intellij has it, there is no extensions that cover this either. At the moment, the Zed IDE is more like an lightweight ai-assisted text editor for me.