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Everything for my PC is one of: 1) Web based (something lightweight like ChromeOS can do it) 2) Command line (easy to ssh into a remote box) 3) IDE (heavy)

Everything for my PC is one of: 1) Web based (something lightweight like ChromeOS can do it) 2) Command line (easy to ssh into a remote box) 3) IDE (heavy) I only need a light weight terminal for 1&2 but 3 keeps tripping me up. Would be great if IntelliJ ran with remote back end.

ubercore 6y ago
I know it's not IntelliJ, and there are still some warts to it, but VSCode's remote capabilities have been good enough for me to use full time for python development.
efitz 6y ago
Amazon Cloud9 [1] and GitHub CodeSpaces [2] already offer cloud IDE. There are almost certainly many more. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ [2] https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- freehunter 6y ago
  I’ve used Codespaces and I use Cloud9 for basically everything line of code I write. The problem is Codespaces is ridiculously overpriced and Cloud9 is growing increasingly outdated compared to VS Code. No extensions, limited language support, doesn’t support Amazon Linux 2 or Graviton EC2 instances, etc. Also even though they’re browser based, many features still don’t work on an iPad. Amazon really needs to put more effort into this space or Microsoft will wildly outcompete them. I still use Cloud9 quite heavily but as soon as Codespaces allows for scrolling with a mouse wheel on an iPad, it’s going to be hard to keep me on AWS.
Scarbutt 6y ago
There's Emacs and Vim.
xnx 6y ago
If games can run via the cloud (e.g. Stadia), it should be possible for any app.
- OkGoDoIt 6y ago
  Microsoft remote desktop seems to work pretty well over cellular on my iPad
  - jcelerier 6y ago
    one person's "seems to work pretty well" is another's "how can you manage to stay sane like that"
l0b0 6y ago
You'd basically need a server in your home to avoid massive latency issues. Even then it's not easy to get native-feeling feedback across the board.

ubercore 6y ago

I know it's not IntelliJ, and there are still some warts to it, but VSCode's remote capabilities have been good enough for me to use full time for python development.

efitz 6y ago

Amazon Cloud9 [1] and GitHub CodeSpaces [2] already offer cloud IDE. There are almost certainly many more. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ [2] https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces

freehunter 6y ago
I’ve used Codespaces and I use Cloud9 for basically everything line of code I write. The problem is Codespaces is ridiculously overpriced and Cloud9 is growing increasingly outdated compared to VS Code. No extensions, limited language support, doesn’t support Amazon Linux 2 or Graviton EC2 instances, etc. Also even though they’re browser based, many features still don’t work on an iPad. Amazon really needs to put more effort into this space or Microsoft will wildly outcompete them. I still use Cloud9 quite heavily but as soon as Codespaces allows for scrolling with a mouse wheel on an iPad, it’s going to be hard to keep me on AWS.

Scarbutt 6y ago

There's Emacs and Vim.

xnx 6y ago

If games can run via the cloud (e.g. Stadia), it should be possible for any app.

OkGoDoIt 6y ago
Microsoft remote desktop seems to work pretty well over cellular on my iPad
- jcelerier 6y ago
  one person's "seems to work pretty well" is another's "how can you manage to stay sane like that"

l0b0 6y ago

You'd basically need a server in your home to avoid massive latency issues. Even then it's not easy to get native-feeling feedback across the board.