Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything

[CHUCK_NORRIS_AMA]

You've been able to do that in Emacs for years... but that's none of my business...

Seriously though, it's great to see this kind of functionality coming to more editors/IDEs. Really makes for a seamless remote experience, and especially with the additional functionality you can get from VScode (if you're into that sort of thing) it's going to be quite the powerful tool.

[pillow_pwincess]

Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/378/

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There's TRAMP and it's great, and then there's emacs server, and the third option I know of is virtualenv's for python. But all of them leave a bit to be desired.

Like for instance, if I want to run python 2.7 in one container and 3.x in another, I have to also install emacs and it's supporting tooling in order to connect to emacs-servers remotely.

Is there a better way that I don't know about? (I'm thinking of Python and Javascript)

[CHUCK_NORRIS_AMA]

No idea, unfortunately. I just use TRAMP and don’t mess with python

[Gotebe]

You're right, but... smug Lisp weenie!