(code-server is basically the open source parts of this from what I understand, and the back-end impact is really no different at all, except needing to open a port for the web interface.)
I'm not sure whether vscode.dev will be able to connect to my own remotes yet; need to test that!
The main problem is as far as I am aware the same; the browser-side connection can drop quite easily because of the limits of iOS (you can't switch away without losing it).
That is obviously not something even a native version of Lapce would be able to totally avoid, but an iOS native app might have a few more strategies for maintaining background remote connections for a little while (SSH apps do for example).
But Visual Studio Code's remote thing really is on another level -- you can do things like run the git session remotely but with the GUI-side tools, do find and replace on the remote side; all the extensions (PHP syntax stuff etc.) install and run on the remote side as well as they do locally etc.; it's almost completely seamless.
EDIT: aha, just saw this, downthread:
> "The main problem is as far as I am aware the same; the browser-side connection can drop quite easily because of the limits of iOS (you can't switch away without losing it)."
The other way round -- an in-editor browser -- could be the better way to work. GoCoEdit does this (and it really is rather good!) as does Panic's Code Editor (formerly Coda for iOS), which is good, but not as good. And you arguably get a terminal more easily this way too, particularly where SSH keys are involved.
Anything like this that progresses the cross-platform remote model that we now have with VSC, particularly if the endpoint is fast and memory-efficient, is really important, because of the variety of dev environments.
What I would _really_ like, of course, is an iPad editor that could do the same.
If you could make an iPad editor that has VSC-style remoting, that is genuinely a killer app right now for a lot of people.
That would be "just enough" editor for me so I could travel for a few days and still do a couple of hours of work here and there, without the laptop commitment.
I am not big on iOS subscription apps and I'm budget-constrained, but I'd pay $50 per year (probably more, and I figure I wouldn't be alone), without hesitation, for a fast remoting iOS editor that had 80% of the functionality of VSCode Remote and had a viable built in browser to avoid the process switch.
The code-server project definitely works for this, but something a bit more native would be amazing.
https://github.com/coder/code-server