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Re:VS Code on a Remote Server by flukus on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:50PM (#19395425)
> Because of the flexibility provided by separating the Node-based logic and processing layer from the web-based presentation layer, VS Code lent itself well to this kind of innovation.

Game Changer? Innovation? This sort of thing has been possible with x-windows for decades.

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Re:VS Code on a Remote Server by morpheuskafka on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:44PM (#19395991)
X forwarding is totally unusable over crowded, throttled, public WiFi or even good internet speeds with hardly any latency at all. The web is designed for those environments.
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