Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

This latest instalment concerns bringing up the toolchain for using the Kick Assembler with VS Code to target the C64, initially via the VICE emulator.

Turns out, the penalty for using native code isn’t as much as predicted, at least in some cases, The performance penalty for using the interpreter, however, can be significant in many common cases.