IDEs can work well editing code that is targeted to a different platform. The code is edited locally (and parsed, analyzed, colorized, etc. by the IDE locally) but built and run remotely on other machines. That setup used to be pretty common for enterprise and web development before Moore let us run entire enterprise application servers on our laptops. It takes more work to set up than just sshing into a remote box and firing up emacs, but it can be done.