I do think this is the future of development and all IDEs will need to support this use case very well. BTW, non reason to not have a GUI just start docker with

I do think this is the future of development and all IDEs will need to support this use case very well. BTW, non reason to not have a GUI just start docker with: -v /tmp:/tmp -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY And you should be able to launch X applications inside docker just fine. I run graphical emacs inside docker everyday.