[anlsh]

One area I have found where TRAMP really suffers is when you have a relatively high-latency connection. I'm living on the east coast right now and connect to a dev box in Washington to work, and tramp is basically unusable. Every time you enter a folder in a project, emacs will stall for 1-2 seconds (unless the folder has been entered and cached before: unfortunately every time you restart emacs you'll have to go through it all again). If you've forgotten to disable autocomplete in a remote shell buffer, the first character you type will cause emacs itself to hang forever. There's unacceptable lag when opening and even navigating files. Good luck ever running grep or magit.

With VSCode on the other hand, I have no issues at all: couldn't even tell the project was remote.

I still use emacs (emacs -nw via ssh), but it's nowhere near VSCode's responsiveness and now I cant use GUI emacs. It's definitely a source of frustration :/