Around 2016, the term "serverless functions" started to take off in the tech industry. In short order, it was presented as the undeniable future of infrastructure. It's the ultimate solution to redundancy, geographic resilience, load balancing and autoscaling. Never again would we need to patch, tweak or monitor an application.
As someone who’s worked a lot with Azure Functions, the experience for me in Visual Studio has always been:
The Functions runtime can be ran locally as a standalone as well, and I was able to get Rust function apps working locally using a custom handler. There’s also a vscode plugin to run them.
Things might be different for Lambdas/GCP’s Functions?