Or people who don’t want their dev environment to interfere with their primary system. Or who have multiple projects with different requirements/dependencies.

Onboarding with a remote setup like this can be very quick. Or really — the same tech (devcontainers) can be used locally just as easily with many of the same benefits. The onboarding/dev setup is reduced to building a few containers and getting the code. You don’t have to locally install packages or worry about incompatible versions of tools.

The remote aspect is available because it’s very easy for Microsoft to do with VSCode as an Electron app. Sadly, they are making it more difficult for anyone outside of vscode.dev to have a remote install without using their “tunnel”.