something like Plan9's cpu server would help here: you "mount" your shell/IDE environment from your computer and "mount" the other computer's cpu, memory, and f

something like Plan9's cpu server would help here: you "mount" your shell/IDE environment from your computer and "mount" the other computer's cpu, memory, and fs over ssh. "mount" is in quotation because in Plan9 you not only can mount fs but cpu, network interfaces, desktop windows and what not too.