Remote development is the future of big tech
The remote development feature allows its users to have an IDE or a code editor server on a remote machine. All the local machine needs is a client that draws an interface, and sends, and receives data. The industry is already pushing in this direction: VSCode was the first to introduce this feature. It’s much easier for VSCode since it’s a code editor built on electron (JS), while for example, IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE and uses Java Swing library for UI. In Autumn 2022, JetBrains also caught this trend and announced a remote development feature for its products and a completely new IDE built from scratch that also supports this feature. GitHub has also introduced a remote development feature which allows using VSCode in a browser. ...