[Lownin]

The way I did it was by not using it for my entire workflow right away. The trojan horse for me was org-mode. Doom Emacs got me started in what felt to be a more modern UX, and I used org-mode not for coding outright, but for note taking and personal project management. After a while, I started to use org-mode's built in ability to run code via org-babel to experiment with ideas in code. Eventually I was comfortable enough that I just started using it to code some times instead of VS Code, because I was already there. I still dual-use VS Code and Emacs because VS Code is still better at some things (working with files on remote server is still kinda slow via TRAMP some times) but I'm about 85% in Emacs now, since I like it better for text traversal, org-mode has become more integrated into my workflow with things like tangle, and I like magit better than VS Code's built-in git interface.

[User23]

TRAMP is generally performant enough with vanilla Emacs, but there are plenty of popular packages that utterly tank TRAMP performance. The big culprit I’ve personally found was helm. It made TRAMP unusable. You may also need to deal with some finnicky settings both in Emacs and in your remote shell to get it running satisfactorily.

I totally agree though that VS Code has a way better out or the box remote coding experience.

[Siira]

You can use the TTY emacs over SSH (or MOSH) without TRAMP. It only transmits the terminal display so it’s fast regardless of third-party extensions. VS Code remote is actually a negative for me, as it needs fast, stable connections and consumes a lot of RAM on the remote machine.