rtun VS wg-jit

I have issues trusting SSHFS. It's never been stable enough for me. Maybe it's because I have to go through at least one ssh proxy, in addition to a VPN. Maybe it's that the remote filesystem is slow enough, so trying to do anything remotely is very slow.

But really, it think it's that I'm already in a terminal connected to a remote system. I don't want to have to go to a different terminal to try and transfer data that I'm already looking at. And trying to use a Finder window (or explorer) to navigate a complex remote filesystem hierarchy isn't fun.

Occasionally I can do my work locally, but usually the data is large enough that I have to do my work on a remote server/cluster. When I generate figures describing my data, I want to see those locally. This particular use-case could be solved by using something like Xpdf, but it's easier to send the figure back to my local machine and view it with Preview.app.

I also sometimes do need to send datafiles back to my local computer. In these cases, I could use sshfs (but don't like the duelling terminals) or scp (but my file paths can be long and complicated, so typing out paths is a pain). I used to actually just handle this with Dropbox. I'd have a program that would send files to a specific Dropbox folder and that would then sync to my local computer. That worked well, but the delay between syncing was an issue.

Here's the code/project I wrote to manage this: https://github.com/mbreese/rtun

I thought this was brilliant and made a little POC here as I couldn't find the code anywhere: https://github.com/realrasengan/wg-jit

This doesn't implement the completion (replay or reverse initiate) which I think both are also novel approaches to this.

So exciting!