> What did people use before it? Emacs + tramp to use local editor. Maybe not quite as good as VS-code's client/server based tools, but I believe tramp does n

> What did people use before it? Emacs + tramp to use local editor. Maybe not quite as good as VS-code's client/server based tools, but I believe tramp does not require any special software to be installed on the server so it pretty much always works.