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Supported RECOMMENDVS PYCHARMCode INSTEAD (for all your python needs)!

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We haveoffer noVS shortageCode via the HPC Desktop application as well as the HPC VS Code Server application. Both of these options support installing extensions and persist settings and extensions across sessions. 

Unsupported VS Code Options

We do not support the VS Code Remote - SSH extension to the HPC cluster. The remote SSH extension is not supported due to a number of known issues with vscoderemote working with the HPClinux servers viadocumented remotehere: access. Microsoft is aware of these issues and there is no reliable fix for them yet. For python work we highly suggest pycharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). It offers most of the same features as vscode but in a much more focussed, unified (across OS's) and reliable way. We'd be happy to setup a meeting to review pycharm and see if its a good fit to replace vscode for you. 

FOR THE RECORD 
There is a bug with new VS code that limits the versions of linux that it will work with as a remote server:
One suggestion was to use older version of VS code, which can be found here and still appears to work (as of Oct 2024):
MAC NEWER VS CODE UNINSTALL 
when you uninstall, remove all the extraneous files:

Follow the top answer which is this:

Here are all the places where VSCode stores stuff on Mac OS X, besides the Visual Studio Code.app itself, which is in your Applications folder:

rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt/
rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/
rm -fr ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState/
rm -fr ~/.vscode/
rm -rf ~/.vscode*
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