Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.

Current approaches to remote development -- such as Remote Desktop, SSH and Vim and browser-based tools -- can work, but can be cumbersome or problematic. Upon listening to feedback provided by the ...