Do remote IDEs work well enough?

Github's engineering blog did a post recently about their remote IDE setup:

https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move...

In their case, running the software locally was RAM-intensive so cloud machines were helpful. There's some performance gotchas in the second half of the article that are also worth thinking about.

Someone recently told me their some particular remote/cloud IDE worked well -- I forget which one it was.

But I said, 'Really?'

And he said, 'Yes, really.'

I'm skeptical.

I'm not a high performance dev -- I actually hate it and only do it when I truly can't afford to pay someone else to do it -- but I'm thinking _maybe_ a cloud IDE could help me somehow.

Maybe end up making me more productive somehow? End up requiring less work, ultimately?

First project would be pretty simple PHP/Laravel CRUD app.

I like the website Hacker Rank where you solve programming puzzles in some language like Python, hit a button and run unit tests, etc.

Also the web IDE for Amazon Lambda is just perfect for the little Lambdas I write that usually take an item off one queue, transform it, then put items on zero or more other queues.

For more complex programs it could be different.

ssh|mosh/tmux/emacs (or vi) works okay (I've never used mosh but in theory would improve latency).

But https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh works quite well. I routinely work on my project on my Linux box via my macbook (note, I am doing this on a LAN though)... but you can give it a quick try.

On any github repo hit '.' or try https://github.dev/vhodges/stitcherd

I have a linux server in my house and I launch Sublime remotely over ssh for coding projects to a few machines in my house i.e. each project has it's own user on the server.

On a lan the performance is great.