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Intellij IDEA does that too, and the installer is a very big file. I suspect an entire headless IDE is installed in the remote host.

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That's how most of these remoting features work, by running the IDE backend on the remote host.

I'm not sure if IntelliJ IDEA has an equivalent, but CLion has an option to just do the build and run/debug on the remote host without running the whole IDE on it.

Jetbrains provide an option to use their lightweight remote development gateway[1] and not have the IDE installed on the local machine at all.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/

Gateway is just a launcher. It installs the ide both remote and local.

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