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VS Code runs on remote hosts through SSH, containers, or WSL: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

Kinda like a parallel universe swank/slime.

Yes... and has the same limitations of roundtripping files in any other IDE.

For display and editing purposes, yes. However, from what I understand, the LSP, linters, and auxiliary tools all run on remote.