VS Code editor

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EDNEDN Senior Member Joined: 18/02/2023 Location: United States Posts: 247	Posted: 12:23am 04 Oct 2025       It is good.   I prefer Vi to edit my code but VS Code has become a default building block for many low level build environments.    Many different embedded platforms use it to build their environment.     Hopefully, whatever you are trying to build comes with a Cheat Sheet telling you the steps to get it setup for whatever you are doing.   Because it has a ton of features and the ability to load all kinds of extensions.   The learning curve to understand it is pretty steep.   But once it is setup correctly for what you are building, you can just focus on what you are doing. And VS Code is tolerant of the user editing the source files outside of its editor.   So I usually have a couple Vi windows open on the relevant files I'm working on even though VS Code is open also.