Comment by broken-kebab
17 hours ago
TRAMP (mentioned in the article) does it without installing anything on remote machine, just SSH, and shell commands. Which sounds more natural to me. Node.js security history, with all due respect, is not shiny. And the problem the author has with VSCode's way, I guess, is not that it can edit files, but that it extends attack surface without real need.
TRAMP actions are also rather slow (high latency). OTOH, tramp-rpc relies on a little tool to run on the remote and is much snappier. This proves there is a better middle ground than TRAMP with nothing and whatever abomination VSCode injects. Basically, busybox with a persistent RPC connection is all one needs.
Latency can be managed by having shared connections (for example: https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article42/ssh-connection-shari... ), so handshakes don't make everything super slow