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Sure, that's ideal, but what if you have a small laptop? It would be nice to make use of the power of your server to compile more quickly, and speed up your development cycle, right?

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have a buildbot/jenkins set up which runs your test suite on a buildslave automatically when you push to a git branch?

I would still run my editor locally (your pick. I use vim almost exclusively).

and do that for every project, even small throwaway experiments?

If it's a throwaway experiment, it shouldn't take too long to compile locally, I would think.

That's a remote workstation, not really a server. You should keep these two separate.

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