[akhilcacharya]

What I usually just do is open up a terminal in the FUSE mounted directory and an SSH session in another tab. Run everything on the remote machine and make edits on the local machine using any editor I want.

RE: building, compiling without login etc - I have a bunch of aliases that let me do that remotely with ssh. You're still "logging in" but don't need to deal with anything major.