I don't think the remote workstation idea is a bad idea. For me, in order to be a proper development machine it would need to have a fully local IDE with a remote terminal so I can run docker, test cases, database commands, etc. The VSCode Docker image recently discussed is a huge next step if the input and scroll were to be fixed. I used to use the dev version of cloud 9 on my VMs and code in the browser. It worked…
I'd like someone to build a service and offer native apps for Windows, Mac and iPad, with the data stored on the cloud. Everything should work offline and on flaky networks, with zero latency. Sync should happen in the background.