There's also the web-based mbed IDE that is arguably simpler for a lot of people than all that command-line stuff. Looks like microbit is supported as a platfor

There's also the web-based mbed IDE that is arguably simpler for a lot of people than all that command-line stuff. Looks like microbit is supported as a platform. https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/Microbit/ https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/Microbit/