[bobbyrullo]

I'm at an organization where our dev machines are in the cloud. Most folks are indeed using VSCode remotely, but I'm happy with emacs.

The combo that works for me (on MacOs locally) is daemon mode and X11 forwarding...but using x2Go instead of vanilla "ssh -X". I end up with XQuartz windows that behave (mostly*) like other MacOS windows and pretty good performance.

If I'm at cafe or somewhere with spotty internet, I'll forgo the X stuff and just use mosh and text only emacs, but I pretty much never do that anymore.

(* mostly, meaning that for some reason tools like divvy and other things that manipulate/resize windows just don't work with X Quartz windows)