As fantastic as IntelliJ and VSCode IDEs are, I still find myself (sometimes) preferring working on remote servers with mosh/tmux/Emacs for two main reasons: 1)

As fantastic as IntelliJ and VSCode IDEs are, I still find myself (sometimes) preferring working on remote servers with mosh/tmux/Emacs for two main reasons: 1) being close to data on cloud platforms like GCP and AWS. 2) being able to spin up a VPS to work for a few hours that is much faster than any of my laptops and has faster network access.