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What's the Future of IDEs?

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During an idle Sunday evening, a few weeks ago, I played with JetBrains’ Projector: it’s IntelliJ — one of the most powerful IDEs around — installed on a remote server and accessible through the browser. I wanted to see how I might offload some heavy computing tasks, like training and evaluating large machine learning models, off of my local computer, without compromising my coding user experience. It’s a surprisingly easy setup to build. It took me less than an hour, from hitting “Create instance” on AWS to having a fully-fledged AI project running on my iPad Pro. It felt like magic. PyCharm running on my iPhone The concept is bold and compelling: moving the development environment to a remote server, instead of keeping it on a local machine. Effectively, a centralized form of workflow: a mainframe. What is localhost, at that point? Of course, the idea is not unique to JetBrains. Microsoft is going in the same direction with Visual Studio Code, now available online — in particular on

What's the Future of IDEs? November 2021 During an idle Sunday evening, a few weeks ago, I played with JetBrains’ Projector: it’s IntelliJ — one of the most powerful IDEs around — installed on a remote server and accessible through the browser. I wanted to see how I might offload some heavy computing tasks, like training and evaluating large machine learning models, off of my local computer, without compromising my coding user experience. It’s a surprisingly easy setup to build. It took me less than an hour, from hitting “Create instance” on AWS to having a fully-fledged AI project running on

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