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Remote development for OSS Builds of VSCode like VSCodium
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> there is now an open source remote mode extension
URL please? Open VSX lists several but it's hard to evaluate if they're complete & stable from just the READMEs. For example, https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss has existed for a long time, but one would need to spend a few hours to know if it works well enough.
There's also remote-oss [1], which is fairly low-level (you have to install it on), but doesn't require you to pass your traffic through the GitHub proxy that Microsoft's service requires (I believe) and is also truly open source (which means, for example, that it can also be used with Codium [2], not just the Microsoft's VS Code distribution).
[1]: https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss [2]: https://vscodium.com/
The extension API proposals and RPC protocol are open sourced and the server code is just an electron-less version of the regular VSCode extension host (hence, remote extension host, REH). This is all part of the VSCode OSS release.
What the proprietary extensions provide is integration. For example, the SSH variant automatically installs and launches an REH instance on the remote host and sets up port forwarding. If you are willing to start the instance and to forward ports yourself, you can use the tiny extension I wrote [1,2] (See the README how to enable the necessary extension proposals.). It allows you to connect to a local port you configure in the config. It is based on an example extension (vscode-test-resolver) in the OSS release that is used to test this functionality [3].
Microsoft is not really hiding any of this, so I am a little surprised, that nobody wrote a similar extension so far...
[1] https://open-vsx.org/extension/xaberus/remote-oss [2] https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/vsc...