I was just thinking yesterday that it would be cool if there was something like this for VSCode, just like for the well known text editors, so I can launch it in an ssh session.
VS Code has really good support for editing over SSH built into a preview extension now [0]. It is as seamless as running vim over ssh, except it’s a GUI app running locally connected to a temporary VS Code server on the remote. It even supports extensions installed on the remote. I’ve tried so many different implementations to get Sublime working in this config (like SSH forwarding a samba share) and they’re all terrible compared to VS Code’s.
[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview