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For me the axis is not computer quality, it's IDE quality. My productivity in a large codebase jumped 10x when I switched from emacs to IntelliJ (for Java). Going back would be like blindfolding myself after I grew up blind and got my eyesight restored once.

Remote development is tricky indeed. Many people run the IDE locally and use its remote development functionality. I run it remotely over VNC.

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You run your IDE over VNC?

I've been wanting to try out remote developing for multiple years now, it would allow me to get an iPad with a perfect battery life or an Macbook Air that would tag along all day without charging. But because I cannot work with vim/emacs and my IDEs (IntelliJ) do not support anything like remote development I am stuck with a huge Macbook Pro including a battery draining IDE that cannot be ran remotely. VNC added too much lag for me to use all day.

I used to use Eclipse over X11 over Wifi within my house and it worked fine, no noticable latency.

Latency is a problem indeed, I am lucky to be close to work and have massive bandwidth all the way to my dev box. Without that the experience is pretty poor, and I used to make it work by dropping bit depth to the minimum bearable level.

This is why I love Visual Studio Code. With SSH remote connection it's basically the best of both worlds.

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