Code execution in VSCode remote server

Hi everyone,
I’ve been working quite effectively by executing code on a remote vs code window. I enjoyed the fact that I can have a standard Julia file and run lines and get a plot window. However, since a few weeks this setup has basically become unusable and I don’t understand why. The language server seems to get stuck on “Starting Language Server” (even though it ends up at “initial lint complete”). The execution does work eventually, but it takes a while and then it’s intermittent: sometimes there is just a wait for the line to be executed (not because it takes long to compute). I was running everything on the latest release version through juliaup and the latest julia-vscode plugin. I purged everything (rm -rf .vscode-server .vscode .julia) and reinstalled everything, but nothing has changed.
Is this something anyone else is experiencing? I tried to find workarounds to still use vs code and execute code, but everything seems to rely on the julia-vscode plugin? Are there some good alternatives that combine JETLS.jl with something to execute lines of code?
Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated.