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I'm currently working on a huge codebase that takes forever to compile.

I'd love to use Codespaces or a self hosted alternative so that I don't need to carry around a heavy i7 laptop.

Being able to develop in the cloud from a browser opens up the possibility to develop from a thin Chromebook.

You can do this right now with the Remote SSH extension for VS Code:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

I use this for developing on linux/pi/jetsons, (need to test linking against real libs, and cross compiling for some reason still isnt a thing), but the compile times are terrible...

I wish this was even more modular so we could have a dumb compile farm, +local ide +run&debug on-device (I've recently got 90% closer by remote sshing with vs code to a pi vm)

I suspect you could hack it together with something like distcc, with VSCode none the wiser.

Isn't this option already available with CI/CD or Vim?

You can also use VS Code on a remote VM directory. Our devs do this.

I'm doing that as well. Works fairly well.

(Much better than eg PyCharm's attempt at remote development.)

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