[closeparen]

Never liked Eclipse, but I’ve been forced to use VSCode over my preferred JetBrains IDEs because it is the only modern mainstream editor with a competent client-server mode. As in, actually rendering the UI locally while doing all the code indexing and intelligence on the server. Corporate world would much rather maintain disposable remote VMs than help you unfuck your laptop after whatever required security upgrade installs the wrong version of a scripting language and sends everything to hell.

[sakjur]

Have you tried Jetbrains Gateway? I’m curious whether it’s insufficient or just too recent, as I’ve eyed it a few times.

[no-name-here]

For those unfamiliar, Gateway is essentially a thin local client for Jetbrains IDEs to run remotely. The remote functionality at least is free. https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/

[closeparen]

It’s not as dumb a client as VNC, but it’s close. Basic operations like typing and scrolling will stutter and lag if your connection is less than perfect. VSCode’s client is really VSCode from a UI perspective.

[TiredOfLife]

Gateway is discontinued

[mrkeen]

Yikes, sounds like hell.

Corporate never seems to get that git is the kind of interface you want between your computer and their servers.

Then when you trash your computer you can just get it back to the state of being able to git.

[vanviegen]

They're not using the remote VM as a server but as the development machine though. You don't want to have to git commit and push every time you need to run or even type-check your code.

I think what GP describes is actually a pretty okay solution for orgs that don't want to provider their devs with local admin privileges.

[closeparen]

You can develop locally if you want to, and lots of people do, but it’s community support. The environment that someone else is obligated to fix for you is the remote one (which they can do by blowing away the container and then you recover your state from Git).