GitLab team member here - Sid shared a Twitter thread a while ago which has more insights into remote development environments and server runtime. [0]

At GitLab, there are open roles for "Server Runtime" in the incubation engineering team [1] [2] in case someone is interested in joining and building this together :)

[0] https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1400134840754733059

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/incubation/#op...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/all-jobs/