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It works, if you have reliable Internet connection and a VPN setup to go with it at all times you want or need to do work. Many tasks are easier and faster over more or less virtual LAN, such as fuzzing, stress testing and direct DB interactions on big amounts of data. If the dev server is reachable through a local virtual network interface I can work with it while on long commutes and when ISP:s fail me.

As for VS Code being lightweight, it's more efficient to run a VM with vim, mycli, Chrome with a few pages open and the web serving stuff. It rarely consumes more than 5 GB of RAM, while VS Code happily chews up the double on its own with a few plugins and the same amount of open files. While I use Notepad++ for certain tasks it is a fairly crude coding environment.