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I won't mind IntelliJ on the web - even if it takes some time to load, or CLion - which targets emscripten/webasm/something

Imagine a bit more powerful Chromebook with that..., but then where the files, projects, etc. would get stored?

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I've wanted this for a while - have my ThreadRipper box at home, and use a remote IntelliJ on a wimpy laptop that just runs a light UI through the browser. Real latency benefits vs running remotely, especially on a typical coffee shop wifi.

Ahh, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Edit: or spark up a really powerful instance on something like Hyper.sh when you need it, close it down when you're done. Pay more to get a well provisioned instance when you need real horsepower.

For the second point, I've had a lot of success doing this with a Jupiter notebook. It's not an IDE by any means but it's very productive for exploratory work, and when you need horsepower you just spin up the kernel on a beefier cloud machine.

Try https://c9.io/ or https://shiftedit.net/

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