VSCode and/or Visual Studio? Windows host

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I’m hoping to do some Zynthian development as well as developing a simple JUCE-based plugin. I’m a recently retired software engineer with 45 years of experience, but haven’t used either VSCode or Visual Studio much. I’ve also never used JUCE before, so I’ll want to be able to follow a hand-holding tutorial.

For Zynthian, VSCode is recommended. For JUCE using Projucer, Visual Studio is recommended. (I’m not set on using Projucer, but I want the smoothest start-up experience.) Can I install both and manage it? Or should I go with one or the other and make do in the non-optimal case?

Also, my laptop is Windows, though I use Ubuntu on both WSL and VirtualBox. I prefer WSL because I can use OneDrive so the files are accessible from any system, but can use VB if needed.

I’m willing to replace Ubuntu. The Zynthian wiki says to use Debian Jesse but I hope it’s just out-of-date. WSL supports Bullseye, Bookworm, and Trixie.

Recommendations please?

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Never mind – VSCode and Visual Studio co-exist just fine, and I’ll ask about Debian version in another thread.

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Sorry, I’m not deeply experienced with coding and my adventures here are a bit dated, but I did use VS with IPlug2 (which also produces VS projects) and very briefly Juce while using VSCode in parallel when I just needed a more simple editor just fine.

It might be that the frontiers shifted a bit and that VSCode meanwhile might be suitable to handle project based programming. But I tend to use VSCode for ssh access to zynthian, sfz editing and lighter coding while still using VS for vst plugin programming.

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