> But what does distributed mean in this context? You run the editor across many machines? What does that mean? It means that the editor is split into two (or

> But what does distributed mean in this context? You run the editor across many machines? What does that mean? It means that the editor is split into two (or more) parts: a UI that runs locally on the machine you're sitting in front of, and a server that can run anywhere that does I/O, analysis, debugging, etc. It's useful e.g. if you're running Windows but target Linux (run the server-side in WSL), for dev containers (run the server-side inside a container with the toolchain for your project), or to develop in/for the cloud.