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Are you referring to bidirectional syncing built into Jetbrains IDEs? If so, I have mixed feelings about it.

I gave this setup a go with PhpStorm. Host-to-VM sync is pretty seamless but you always have to manually sync changes from the guest to the host, so there’s that. Additionally, syncing can be very slow on large directory trees. I often found myself staring at a loading animation waiting for the IDE to catch all the changes and sync them to the guest.

AFAIK it is not recommended to open a project located on a network drive in a Jetbrains IDE but my experience with it so far has been great. Latency is not a concern because the VM is local.

Most importantly, I wanted to avoid a syncing situation where you have the source and the destination with two possibly differing states. This difference implies the possibility of conflicts which complicates things even further.