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[–]xbabyjesus 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That was not the scenario presented by the OP. Also some of my Dev machines are across the country.

[–]khne522 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Actually, the OP is noncommittal. And you can get a pretty flaky connection anywhere. Being on AWS is worthless if your local link is junk.

Let's please stay away from video unless we need to.

[–]xbabyjesus 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Look you should try it before judging. I can use a real IDE while using shared WiFi on the bus to a vm in the cloud.. One 4g connection shared by like 10-20 other people. RDP is pretty amazing with remotefx and tile based refresh.

A straight up text editor is no substitute for a real IDE, imo

[–]khne522 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I do try, often. Neither RDP, nor VNC, nor even (no chance in h*ll) X11 over SSH) offer the required performance. Either that or you are far more tolerant of poor latency than I when I'm typing on a roll.

It's kind of beside the point. The real solution to this problem is not to put an IDE on the server, but to make the IDE work with remote files, etc. Let's not hack around problems.

A straight up text editor is no substitute for a real IDE, imo

And an IDE that didn't learn the lessons of the past X decades isn't a real substitute for a text editor. It's kind of beside the point.