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It seems to be like Theia https://theia-ide.org/ which is based on vscode and runs in the browser. It's used by this project to give a full lab/workspace and ide in the cloud:https://www.eclipse.org/che/ (it's actually closer to vscode even though eclipse is in the name).

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No theia has a nodejs server backing its web experience. This vscode.dev is an entirely client side JS application that runs in your browser--there's no backend server beyond something to serve a pile of static JS and html.

Is this true about vscode.dev?

This was the first question I had while reading the blogpost: Do all my local files stay on my machine or do they get uploaded to a remote server?

The blog post says it's using a brand new local file access API only in cutting edge browsers (edge and chrome) so you can access the files on your machine directly from the browser. There is no server upload of anything.

Ah yes that's cool, they mention even the Python extension can run client-side.

Yo. Last night Gitpod’s IDE architect (one of the key folks behind Theia) did a great blog post on the history of cloud IDE’s over at https://gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history

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