I use both. IntelliJ being a paid personal subscription. I like both. But VsCode excels in their remote editing capabilities. Sometimes I work on code that will only compile on a Linux and I am on a Mac. It is not just remote debugging - the whole environment including language server works flawlessly via remote while making you feel like local development.
It is good for two good IDEs to survive. I don’t want one of them to win. There is room for two.
I only wish the opensource development model of plugins (for both IntelliJ and VsCode) doesn’t come to bite us one day with a rogue developer inserting malware. The whole review/reputation system should be like Apple App Store
VS Code Remote Containers is another cool feature. You can develop inside any Docker container locally. This could essentially mirror whatever image you have deployed into Kubernetes, GKE, GCS, etc.
I still mostly just SSH onto a workstation for any of my personal work, but every month or two I'll check out the latest batch of self-hosted remote IDEs. My favorite by far (with caveats -- a few of your favorite extensions have licensing issues, and the mobile UI is garbage) is a fork of VS Code designed for doing exactly that. Check out https://github.com/cdr/code-server.
I went this route with code-server[1]. But later decided against it because some shortcuts don't work in the browser. Also installing and managing code-server on those VMs had started becoming a chore.
I am using remote-ssh instead. Hassle-free and works like charm.
Can't comment on sudo issue because I mostly log in using root.
It is good for two good IDEs to survive. I don’t want one of them to win. There is room for two.
I only wish the opensource development model of plugins (for both IntelliJ and VsCode) doesn’t come to bite us one day with a rogue developer inserting malware. The whole review/reputation system should be like Apple App Store