I suspect there needs to be some newer patterns in open source build systems that help the cloud-based IDEs become a "thing". It's the build systems that give

I suspect there needs to be some newer patterns in open source build systems that help the cloud-based IDEs become a "thing". It's the build systems that give me confidence that my IDE choice isn't some permanent lock-in. I almost always add .gitignore rules to never check in preferences from anything made by JetBrains, and you know what? It always seems to work fine. For example, my Java project structures are defined by Maven and Gradle, not IntelliJ. IntelliJ uses those conventions. For this to _really_ take off, I sense we just need to be able to bounce offline or online if we want to. And the way that's going to happen is just via the build system defining the structure and workflow. This could happen, but it requires a lot of build work that I don't see happening right now. At least, not in the open