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Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey everyone!

I was just wondering why one would use any of the programs I mentioned above instead of VS Code to write Code.

Can someone give me a brief overview of the advantages?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There's a long list of caveats when running VS Code over SSH. By comparison, text editors:

  • Work on Alpine remotes
  • Work on older distributions, and other *NIX systems
  • Have no problems with SSH key passphrases or security keys
  • Only require a few MB of memory
  • When run in tmux are largely resilient to SSH connection issues