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Ah so the coding was done locally but run remotely? I nearly went insane when I was forced to code using Citrix.
> Ah so the coding was done locally but run remotely? Both, depending on the case and how much you were inclined to fiddle with your setup. And on what kind of software you were writing (most software had a lot of linux-specific code, so running that on a macbook was not really an option). A lot of colleagues were using either IntelliJ or VScode with proprietary extensions. A lot of my work revolved around writing sc…
Yeah it's always handy to be able to work effectively with just terminal tools.
However, VScode and Zed (my editor of choice) both have pretty decent inbuilt SSH/SFTP implementations so you can treat remote code as if it was local painlessly and just work on it.