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I develop remotely on VPSes because I like to have an always-on box reachable from any client. I am wondering if a RP4 offers a similar experience at lower cost.

Does anyone use a RP for this?

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I do this with an RPi3 and it's doing good, so it's doable. It strongly depends on your setup and develeopment environment, though. Do you want VI to work over SSH or want full VNC access to a machine with Gnome and Eclipse? Or something in between like X forwarding? Also, is aarch64 even an option as a host system? (compilations, software availability etc.)

I use tmux and vim over ssh. You mean Arch? Yeah why not.

Then also a lot webpack, Docker: wondering if they would get the Pi stuttering when compiling/building? And if vim is still smooth then (which isn't the case with my 20$ vps).

AArch64 is what the 64-bit version of the ARM instruction set is called.

ah right, think all software I use are available as AArch64 binaries.

You can get AArch64 in Amazon EC2 by the way… up to 16 A72 cores, which is nice.

Here's a link to a user with an ipad pro setup using the RP4 https://twitter.com/jxnblk/status/1147555688933154816

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