[pineapple_sauce]

This appears to be a significantly better implementation. Tramp mode is god awful slow and does not maintain a persistent connection.

[noufalibrahim]

The default setup is pretty crappy but with some tweaking of the ssh connection setup, It does a decent job and I used it for actual work for several years.

[globular-toast]

Would you mind outlining the settings or pointing to a reference?

[noufalibrahim]

It's been a long time. Most of the stuff I was able to get from conversations on the Emacs IRC channel of freenode. Many of those "tricks" are documented here https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode but I don't know if it's out of date.