I thought you left. HIVE is a very tough market for newbies.
The Powers-That-Be just issued a new white paper for the platform. My guess is that they are actually looking for new ideas for the platform after the breakup with SteemIt. SteemIt is undergoing a similar revision. Except I suspect their code will be controlled by The Tron Foundation.
If you read the whitepaper; you will find that they actually have a large pool of HBD reserved for developers. I think they keep the money for developers in @steem.dao . The wallet contains $19M.
The way they do projects is people write up proposals and the community votes on the proposals. Here is an announcement for the new whitepaper.
https://hive.blog/hive-102930/@guiltyparties/hive-whitepaper
I tried Visual Studio a long time ago. I seriously disliked it. I pretty much stopped using IDEs in favor of text editors. The IDEs seem to want people to build unnecessary dependencies into their code.
I am here. Just can't post every day or too frequent considering writing long form content and not getting it monetized is a pain. Plus here I have noticed the existing members form groups and it's hard to join them. Let alone even get attention of others.
So my current focus is just post here short and move on for creating content on other places where I can build followers. HIVE, UPtrend, Steem - all of them require you to have friends and the groups otherwise it's like being alone in some hongkong street with crowd around you and you getting smashed in the movement.
I am currently using Sublime Text editor and so far it's not bad, its lightweight and better than VS Code.