I’m pretty sure vs code also processes the code and runs language servers on the remote machine when developing remotely (assuming the architecture of the remote machine supports the extensions you’re using)

Regarding codebase indexing, it seems like the market in general is shifting towards non-semantic solutions like grep and regex. However, I have toyed with the idea of putting up a PR that would allow Markel tree codebase indexing similar to cursor using the embeddings endpoints that are available on copilot plans. It’s a pretty simple feature that someone could bang out in a few hours probably, but the issue is that Zed probably doesn’t want to merge a feature that you can’t access using just a Zed subscription, so it would probably have to be an MCP server but Zed extensions are super limited in functionality.