...It's based on the very same architecture used by Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces at scale. VS Code has traditionally been a desktop IDE built with web technologies. A few years back, people started patching it in order to run it in a remote context and to make it accessible through web browsers. These efforts have been complex and error-prone because many changes had to be made across the large code base of VS Code. Luckily, in 2019 the VS Code team started to refactor its architecture to support a browser-based working mode. ...