[SparkyMcUnicorn]

I desperately wanted VS Code's remote development functionality in IDEA, and was keeping track of their remote development feature in YouTrack. When CodeWithMe was released, I was sorely disappointed.

All I wanted was my code to run anywhere, and my local machine to be the IDE.

mutagen.io ended up being my answer. After learning how it worked, I got it set up and it works really well. I'm mostly doing PHP development these days, and have a LAMP stack running as docker containers on a server.

The sync is nearly instant (99% of the time), the rare conflicts are easily resolved, and of course debugging still works.

The only thing I'm missing is collaborative editing, which I still have to jump over to VS Code to do. I haven't tried out two people using `mutagen sync` on the same instance of code, but that could be a really interesting solution if it works.

An editor agnostic solution to collaborative/pair coding would be really fantastic.

[Philip-J-Fry]

I've spoken to some Jetbrains employees and it seems their vision of remote development is nothing like what VSCode does. No matter how much I explain they just don't seem to understand the advantages of being able to host the IDE in a docker container/remote system. "Docker isn't supposed to be used for that, you deploy to a container, not develop inside one" they say.

[cube2222]

Agreed, mutagen is great for remote development.

As for the conflicts, I chose the option of one way sync, with everything being overwritten by what's on my local machine if there's a conflict. Works like a charm, since the remote machine will only ever produce build artifacts and run them, which I don't need to sync back to my machine.

[crummy]

Jetbrains Projector seems to be their solution. It runs the IDE on the server, and renders the GUI in a browser. Seems experimental so far, I'm running it at home and it's surprisingly far along but still ... Kludgey? A great POC.