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Sorry for the unfamiliarity with JetBrains products. Is this architecture similar to VSCode’s? So the ide has a backend that can run remotely and a frontend client that can run in multiple environments including web? I remember a long time ago pyCharm had the ability to run the interpreter remotely. What are the benefits of pulling more stuff in the backend? Is it in order to be able to run the editor in different environments?

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I actually have a use case for this. I work on a big JVM app that needs some serious hardware to run locally. If I want to develop remotely I have to use a Remote Desktop to access a workstation, which is hell.

You can remote debug, but you can’t really remote develop. Intellij is index heavy so you need Intellij and the code to be collocated on a machine, otherwise IntelliJ will overload the network. You can get around this by having two copies of the code and manually transfer any differences to machine running the JVM, but it’s really brittle. Separating the front and back ends will allow me to have JVM, code, and compiler all on one machine, but the editor on another.

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