[dsr_]

100% remote development is the norm at my company -- not remote from home, although that's an option you can work out with your manager. You can mount your sandbox's filesystem via sshfs, and use whatever editor you like. If your laptop dies, you really haven't lost any work.

[icebraining]

Doesn't it get slow? I'm running Firefox with a profile on a mounted sshfs directory, and it freezes for a few seconds quite regularly, despite having a decent connection.

[dsr_]

Nobody's complained, and I am one of the people responsible for fixing such complaints.

ISTR Firefox does an awful lot of writes in order to maintain state; https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here... is from more than a year ago, but I wouldn't be too surprised if something similar were happening to you.