Pi Pico VSCodium on Linux Mint setup script.
Took me ages to get the Raspberry Pi Pico VSCode environment sort of set up on Linux Mint but I could never quite replicate the results on every machine I use (there are a few) and it was hit and miss with debugging etc. I'd spend a lot more time fighting the development environment than actually coding and by the time I'd got it working I'd lost the will to code. I was over it, I'd consigned the Pi Pico boards back into the box and reverted to my favourite STM32 chips. Recently ST announced they're starting to use VSCode and nightmares that I might get stuck in the same loop began to grow in my mind. I decided that I needed to spend a little time working out how to install a complete, working IDE for the Pi Pico, figuring it would open up an alternative to STM as well as giving me a way to use the Pi Pico boards I'd bought in an integrate development environment instead of with a bunch of command shell alphabetti spaghetti So, I did a little reading, realis...