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I feel most of those points are obsolete with Idea. It takes seconds to start and so on.

Only benefit I see is remote development over terminal.

The JetBrains IDE family is half way there. You can run your code on remote targets now, but I think the code itself still has to actually be on your machine.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2021/01/run-targets-run-and-...

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