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For Jetbrains users:

Step 1. Create an Oracle Cloud account Step 2. Create an Ampere 6 core, 32gb memory instance for like $5/mo Step 3. Use Jetbrains Gateway to run your IDE as a thin client, executing on that host.

You get a pretty darn beefy ARM64 VM instance from OCI for extremely cheap. You can get these in a region near you, with low latency. And Jetbrains Gateway works pretty great.

On the plus side, this is an entire VM, so if you've got containers, or whatever else you need to run, that all executes there too.

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Jetbrains Gateway is very poor compared to VS Code's remote development plugin. I can't use it without wanting to pull my hair out. It's laggy, installing plugins is painful (per project?!), etc..

Has it improved in the last year?

not really

i so desperately want it to work, but it messes up often enough that it's not worth it yet

fwiw, using local intellij with nfs mounted source is a better experience

Yes, it's improved remarkably over the past year. I had the same experience as you, but it's at the point where it's pretty usable.

There are still irritations. But I am comfortable using it day-to-day.

It's absolutely critical that your remote gateway be nearby. I'm about 10ms away from mine, and though there is sometimes perceptible lag, it's not bad at all.

It's still painful. Maybe it's improved, but my day-in/day-out with it is horrible.

Sounds close to my experience with Rider the other week. Had a fantastic experience migrating my dev environment to WSL+VSCode from VirtualBox. Went to try Rider pointed at the WSL instance and.. Basically gave up on it lol.

Do you mean $50/month? Or maybe $5/day? I’m reading:

> Ampere A1 compute… with cores billed at $0.01 per OCPU-hour and memory billed at $0.0015 per GB-hour in all regions.

So for 6 cores and 32gb memory I’m calculating $78.84 per month.

I’d love to get 32gb of ram for $5/month.. but it sounds too good to be true.

Looks like 4 cores and 24 GB fit inside the free tier: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

It is funny they call it "Always Free".

Either they are aping from Google Cloud or Thomas Kurian brought some Oracle phrases with him to Google, since GCP also calls it that (or at least they used to).

Thank you, Wow that’s a generous free tier!

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