This has been my white whale for a bit as I do full-stack development where I’m managing multiple code projects across multiple machines. I have been looking for a VSC replacement as I would prefer another editor. The TL;DR is no, there is no VSC replacement currently.
Emacs has TRAMP+plugins but plugin support is iffy in my experience. Both Emacs and vim work great over terminal, but then you’re using a terminal editor and all that comes with, and you have to copy your settings and configurations to every new machine. I still use Emacs sometimes but prefer a GUI nowadays.
Zed has a remote edit feature in alpha but it relies on sending code to externally hosted servers which is against my company’s policy.
Nova has editing over SFTP but I tried Nova out for a day and found it to be really lacking. SFTP is very slow to edit and many plugins didn’t work with it. Overall language support is quite bad for non-web languages which doesn’t work for me as I regularly write in a bunch of languages.
Sublime Text has several SFTP edit plugins but they are usually paid, and didn’t look appealing enough to me to purchase, so I can’t say yet if they work.
I just straight up couldn’t get Pycharm/IntelliJ’s remote edit feature to work. I honestly think there must have been some network/firewall issue at my company because it would seemingly start up and then just never connect. This makes no sense if it is using SSH in the backend because other SSH programs work, but still debugging…
VSC is buggy, uses lots of RAM, sucks battery life, and is owned by shitty Microsoft. But for me it really is the best tool for the job. I’m optimistic about Zed.
France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal are giving out the visas in Moscow at a higher rate than they used to in 2020. Some countries are extremely dependent on tourism.
Bank accounts are not an issue in the slightest
Yeah, true... There is currently a big anti-EU/Schengen backslash in my state because we can't control entry of Russians that got the visa elsewhere. Which is a problem as we stopped giving them out because they acted as if we were the next in line for invasion.
I mean, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Among those who can apply to the remaining countries, who can bear the increased costs and shortened validity terms of the non-“simplified” process (and of course the usual 2x markup from the “visa center” rackets that consulates are so keen to force on applicants), and who can figure out a way to arrange a trip without access to their domestic bank accounts (no credit cards thanks to Visa/MC, no currency withdrawals thanks to Putin) or other cheap ways to get foreign currency (good luck figuring out travel medical insurance), the acceptance rates might well be the same as among everybody who went abroad previously.
I don’t know that that’s true, but it would not exactly strain the imagination. It just doesn’t mean what GP appears to imply it means.
Recent Russian regulation automatically closes their domestic bank accounts on the grounds of their internal passports expiring. You can only renew them from inside Russia.
Unfortunately, one of these times is at 20, which can be a serious problem for those evading conscription. There have also been recent developments where opposition figures’ passports are cancelled as a persecution measure[1], but it’s too early to tell how widespread it’s going to be.
This is the first thing I look for when considering the alternative
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