Funny that you mention this. I run it perfectly on my raspi 3 using code-server on home assistent. Now please tell me, what is a better IDE then vscode for a raspi 3? It barely uses any ram on the server side. Wouldn't it have been written in electron the code-server project would not be possible. Using a raspi not as a headless device when programming is a stretch. So the only IDEs that come to my mind are vim, emacs, eclipse Che, c9 and vscode. Would use vscode from this list, again not even close.

Now expanding this further, before code-server I had to use vnc, nomachine, x2go, ssh, mosh or xrdp to use an IDE on a remote server. None of these solutions are lightweight or stable across an unstable connection besides console based IDEs. Now I can finally write software as if the IDE would run on my rather old laptop while executing code on a very powerful server with minimal setup cost and barely any ram usage (compared to a full blown IDE).