Renesas announced that customers can now use Microsoft® Visual Studio Code to program all Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs).

VS Code, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) and code editor, is gaining traction for its ease of use and flexible features that simplify and accelerate code editing. And it simplifies ...

This latest instalment concerns bringing up the toolchain for using the Kick Assembler with VS Code to target the C64, initially via the VICE emulator.

VS Code offers a simple development environment that allows you to focus on learning programming concepts without getting overwhelmed by features you don't need.

Adopting these VS Code extensions has been a productivity booster for my web development setup. They have allowed me to focus on the parts of coding that I enjoy most.

VS Code's AI integration tempted me away from PhpStorm, but getting it set up broke everything. Here's how I fixed it, what I learned, and which AI tools are now available because of the switch.