It is SO nice to come back where you left from multiple machines. Also it is very nice to have a 10 gig connection. It works incredible well. With Scala and the metals plug-ins it is very close to a full blown intellij experience.
Edit: also, ContainerSSH tears down the container when you disconnect, so that may not exactly be what you are looking for.
Also have arch + i3 + openrdp dev containers which work awesome. Even with multi-monitor support. The only thing missing is gpu acceleration. Then it would be perfect.
Any chance you've published the build files somewhere? This sounds fantastic
If your dev environment's state mutates and deviates from the rest of a team's (or away from production), the deviation introduces bugs. This tool lets you "start fresh" with the correct environment every time, but (I imagine) also lets you update that shared environment by pushing a new container.
In this way you ensure everybody is developing off exactly the same thing, and can easily update that shared environment, but nobody clobbers anybody else's WIP, and you can test new changes in your own container, even persisting your own configuration using persistent volumes.
Sadly, this does not support port forwarding, which is the final feature necessary to do remote development (run your web app remotely, see it in your browser locally).