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So it is a client-server app? Aren't clients always running completely locally and the server always running remotely? Not trying to be smart, I would like to u

So it is a client-server app? Aren't clients always running completely locally and the server always running remotely? Not trying to be smart, I would like to understand where the line is for vscode remote? What is running remotely (on the server) exactly?

phamilton 5y ago
Yes, my statement does sound tautological. In vscode a full copy of the vscode backend runs on the remote machine. All running of tests, running the app, type checking and Intellisense, etc. all run on the remote machine. But the UI/client runs on my machine. The result is a very seamless native feeling experience, much more so than RDP or Citrix or any other display forwarding technology I've used. My claim is that client/server applications actually work very well and much better than a "streaming desktop experience".