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Zambyte ◴[] No.45396281[source]
I was skeptical of the claim that it's faster than traditional SSH, but the README specifies that it is faster at establishing a connection, and that active connections are the same speed. That makes a lot of sense and seems like a reasonable claim to make.
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notepad0x90 ◴[] No.45396639[source]
Although, dollars-to-donuts my bet is that this tool/protocol is much faster than SSH over high-latency links, simply by virtue of using UDP. Not waiting for ack's before sending more data might be a significant boost for things like scp'ing large files from part of the world to the another.
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finaard ◴[] No.45396823[source]
Not really that relevant - anybody regularly using SSH over high latency links is using SSH+mosh already anyway.
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oefrha ◴[] No.45397106[source]
The huge downside of mosh is it handles its own rendering and destroys the scrollback buffer. (Yes I know I can add tmux for a middle ground.)

But it's still irrelevant here; specifically called out in README:

> The keystroke latency in a running session is unchanged.

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esseph ◴[] No.45398729[source]
"huge downside" (completely mitigated by using tmux)

The YouTube and social media eras made everyone so damn dramatic. :/

Mosh solves a problem. tmux provides a "solution" for some that resolves a design decision that can impact some user workflows.

I guess what I'm saying here, is it you NEED mosh, then running tmux is not even a hard ask.

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1. jeffhuys ◴[] No.45402992[source]
Honestly, it feels like the one being dramatic here is you. Because the one you’re replying to added “huge”, you added a whole sentence calling everyone “so damn dramatic”. But oh well.
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2. esseph ◴[] No.45405411[source]
You know what has a "huge downside"? Radiation therapy.

Not a scroll back buffer workflow issue.