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 latest update to Microsoft's open source-based, cross-platform code editor features better debugging, many Workbench improvements and new guidance for Raspberry Pi installations.

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

If you want to get into Raspberry Pi projects, a user-friendly code editor is essential. Here are six of the best code editors for Raspberry Pi programming.