Yeah I used to work with genomics data and never did I think I needed to have part of my text editor running on the high performance cluster.
I think people are just talking about different things and confusing each other. The original comment I replied to was arguing against SSHing in (or vnc or something) and running the text editor there. VSCode isn't doing that. It is running the interactive part locally. It's hard for me to understand why it needs a server part, though. If you want to edit something locally it has to send it across the network. There's no way around it. It seems like six of one and half a dozen of the other.
I think people are just talking about different things and confusing each other. The original comment I replied to was arguing against SSHing in (or vnc or something) and running the text editor there. VSCode isn't doing that. It is running the interactive part locally. It's hard for me to understand why it needs a server part, though. If you want to edit something locally it has to send it across the network. There's no way around it. It seems like six of one and half a dozen of the other.