Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

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.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.