While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.

Amazon Web Services offers up a remote development setup for Visual Studio Code developers that involves an SSH connection to leverage the AWS Cloud9 IDE and other functionality.

Current approaches to remote development -- such as Remote Desktop, SSH and Vim and browser-based tools -- can work, but can be cumbersome or problematic. Upon listening to feedback provided by the ...

You can run VS Code on Windows, macOS, and of course on a Raspberry Pi. One of the extensions that helps here is the Remote SSH extension, part of a pack of remote development extensions.

November 2022 release of the code editor previews a remote tunneling capability that allows developers to securely connect to their VS Code machine from any device anywhere.