Here’s a new way to create Visual Studio Code extensions that enable cross-compilation and transfer of Raspberry Pi 5 applications on a host personal computer.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially embraced Microsoft's open source Visual Studio Code editor, known for its cross-platform capabilities enhanced by a vast selection of extensions.

Code written and compiled in Code can be debugged on the Pico over a wired connection to your host Pi. The combination of Raspberry Pi and Visual Studio Code is a powerful one.

The first is the Raspberry Pi. While hardly the first choice in hardware for intensive software development, the Pi runs an ARM CPU and Linux and now it can run Visual Studio Code.

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