What I really like about VSCode is the remote-ssh plugin. This puts (at least some) of the VSCode software on the server and things like Git and the runtime you choose for your code (like the Python install) are on the server. Especially my code needs to run on a batch processing cluster, so it needs to be there and not local if I immediately want to use/test the code. So where I used to work via Samba shares or ssh/Vim/Nano, I now open VSCode and add the remote server to remote-ssh and boom, I can browse the filesystem and use Git from the same interface, I can even have a terminal open to the remote machine at the bottom of my VSCode window (if I want to do more fancy git stuff or start programs). VSCode is now more like a client and plugins remain on the server, the actual dev (local) machine becomes less relevant. Is there anything similar out there?

Actually a colleague of mine use a Jupyter-lab install on the remote cluster, he uses the Editor and Notebooks together to develop. This is also a nice way to develop locally with the code remote.