I’m not sure what repo sizes your developing in, but at big enough numbers, the set of protobuf/thrift definitions, package dependencies, and sheer number of files being looked at, brings all the remote products to their knees. IntelliSense and other syntax, highlighting, chokes.

The biggest services/apps at Uber are not developed in devpods. Speculative, but these IDE’s were developed first as local first environments, there’s lots assumptions they make, adding up to terrible latency.