Development Environment on the Pinebook Pro

[Firestorm]

To me getting VSCode aka Code-OSS to run was quite important. So in case anyone else cares about it too: it builds from sources on Manjaro ARM.

You need to install base-devel and python2.
Then get the sources from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and use yarn to build it.
Note that to use the Marketplace for Add-Ons you need to patch your product.json as described in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/23831
Simply add

Code:

"extensionsGallery": {
"serviceUrl": "[url=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery[/url]",
"cacheUrl": "[url=https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index]https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index[/url]",
"itemUrl": "[url=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items[/url]"
}

Finally run it using ./scripts/code.sh
Here is what I looks like

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Here I've added the F# addon and started editing...

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I could write a more detailed step by step guide if anyone wants. I ran several commands, some of which may have been unnecessary so I'd need to straighten that out before I can give the precise steps.

PS: if in the meantime anyone got the Signal desktop app to build and run, let me know