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Yeah, it’s pretty crazy especially when you’ve got a bunch of bind mounts. My current machine is a 2013 MBA and after cumulative 100+ hours of fighting with docker over the years, I finally gave up and started using remote development in VSCode on a Linux server. That was a great decision.

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Glad to hear this has gone well. My current plan is to stick a Linux workstation under my desk and then use my MacBook for remote vscode.

Last time I tried that the network file serving was a bottleneck. But I guess there comes a point where you have to choose your bottleneck.

VSC is the real workhorse here. It’s way beyond something like an SSHFS mount. The server actually runs an instance of VSC. It’s really quite good and I don’t even notice I’m editing on another machine. Would recommend trying it.

Thanks, today I learned something. I'll try it out.

All the more disappointing that Jetbrains won't support a language server beyond Intellij.

Yeah, Docker is an issue for me as well. Great idea! Thanks! Care to share any more details? Who is hosting what configuration?

Just google VSCode Remote Development. It’s very easy to setup. I personally use a Scaleway machine.

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