> Discovered it’s kind of pain in the ass to get a gui based editor like Intellij to work correctly, especially within a VM. Depending on your use-case, that's

> Discovered it’s kind of pain in the ass to get a gui based editor like Intellij to work correctly, especially within a VM. Depending on your use-case, that's what their Gateway product <https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/ https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/> is designed to solve: it runs (effectively) headless IJ in the VM, so indexing and analysis happens there, and then streams the GUI part over a custom protocol to your local IJ to handle the time-sensitive GUI bits Currently, to the best of my knowledge, they actually do require ssh, so it won't work over AWS SSM nor kubectl exec or similar, but I have high hopes they're going to fix that glaring bug Any Minute Now &trade; see also: - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/remote.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/remote.html - https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/ij_user_guide/jetbrains/#use-cases https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/i... - https://github.com/JetBrains/projector-docker#run-jetbrains-ide-in-docker https://github.com/JetBrains/projector-docker#run-jetbrains-...