We've been using Mutagen extensively for remote development with an EC2 instance hosting a docker-compose with a couple of services and live rebuild+reload, and it's been working fantastic.
It's also nice for automatically managing port forwards.
It's also nice for automatically managing port forwards.
That said, we have developers using VS Code, JetBrains, as well as Vim. The Mutagen-based workflow works well with all of them.