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That instance has access to the file system on my server, allowing me to use any machine to do my work without installing anything.

Many editors have had remote editing support for a while. It requires that you have installed the editor locally, but why wouldn't I have an editor on my laptop or desktop?

(Tramp + LSP all the way ;).)

Though being able to open VS Code in GitHub is a really nice feature!

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> why wouldn't I have an editor on my laptop or desktop

Because it's not just the editor. It's the toolchain. I get remote terminal inside the editor. All my tooling lives on the server and can be specific to the project I'm working on, instead of gumming up my local machine.

Have you heard about Emacs? It has all the features and more. Plus had them for long long time. 44 years on.

Indeed I have. I just don't want to party like it's 1976.

Yet, you are probably deploying on an operating system that is a clone of another operating system that was started in the early 70ies.

Just because I sometimes go through a tunnel doesn't mean I want to live in a cave.

If you use e.g. the Emacs LSP package and edit files remotely through Tramp, you are using the remote toolchain, language server, etc. [1]

(Though for me it doesn't really matter, because I can reproduce exactly the same environments between server and local with Nix.)

[1] https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/remote/

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