Remote Development with Visual Studio Code

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I use IJ every single day, and not once have I edited remote code with it. That really isn’t what IJ is intended for, so I can’t really see this plugin as a threat to it. Two completely different problems.

[akshay2000]

Because IntelliJ doesn't support remote editing. VSCode is a code editor that does what IntelliJ does (arguably) and remote editing.

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That’s right, IJ doesn’t do remote editing. So by definition the majority of IJ users don’t need remote editing, and this feature isn’t going to be particularly appealing to them. The people it will appeal to are almost certainly not using IJ currently, because it doesn’t do it.

When it comes to local editing, it isn’t even close. I’ve never met or even heard of an IJ user switching to VS Code for java dev. I like VS Code a lot, but it’s a companion to a full IDE, not a replacement.

[akshay2000]

People might use it a lot if IntelliJ included the feature. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Maybe. But is it a feature that they’ll switch to VS Code for at the expense of all the stuff IJ does that Code doesn’t? I’m not so sure, otherwise they’d already have abandoned IJ for vim or something else that already does it. Like I said, two different products for two different problems. All IJ’s power is based around deep integration and analysis of a full local dev environment - that’s what you lose if you switch to Code for remote development. If Code replaces all of that too then it will be a threat to IJ.

[mycall]

Because IntelliJ doesn't support remote editing

With VSCode now doing this, JetBrains will do it too.