I’m interested to know what the future of remove development with emacs might look like. I’m a long time emacs user, and use rust, lsp-mode, magit and projectile heavily. The remote experience with tramp just isn’t very good. I’ve had to work around several bugs that lead to hangs, and even though I’m only ~20millis away from my remote machine performance is pretty bad. I believe I’ve already done everything I can to make it fast (ssh control master, etc.), and I’m still not happy. On the other hand, VSCode (which I’m not familiar with) or IntelliJ make remote development a breeze. I really like how they hide latency, and handle reconnects well. I’ve also tried terminal emacs on the remote machine, but I just can’t deal with the input lag.
It’s remarkable how emacs has been able to adapt over the years, and so I’m interested to hear about some ideas to keep emacs relevant for this usecase.
I mount my development directory over sshfs, and have my own custom hacked up file-handler installed. It dispatches to OS filesystem calls for editing files, but ssh (through ssh+control master) for executing commands.
Eglot seems to work kind of ok. The remote LSP servers seem to die a lot and eglot tends to have difficulty restarting them, but I’m not convinced that’s related to the LSP servers being remote.
I had to disable the emacs VC integration for performance reasons, and I ended up just using git via the command line.
My setup is all quite hacky and I don’t like it, and I’d love a better solution. :)