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On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:37:52 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Now mostly use "CodeBlocks", on Linux. M$ ... not sure WHAT they have
>    now, "Visual" something ? These are, alas, more complicated than they
>    NEED to be.

That's one I never heard of. It gets decent reviews, particularly for 
beginners.

https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/
reviews/

Popularity contests are always suspect but VS Code gets a lot of 
attention.

https://medium.com/adl-blog/what-makes-visual-studio-code-so-
popular-54206c386503

There are extensions for almost anything you can think of. Codium and OSS 
Code are derived from the open source without the MS telemetry.

The downside is they do not use the Microsoft repository. I was able to 
install a CircuitPython extension by editing what amounts to the repo 
list. It mostly worked but autocompletion and syntax highlighting didn't. 
It works fine in VS Code.