Zephyr Workbench, a VSCode extension to manage Zephyr on STM32.
It enables users to easily create, develop, and debug Zephyr applications.
Main features:
Install host dependencies.
Import toolchain and SDK.
Create, configure, build and manage apps.
Debug STM32.
You can directly download it from the VSCode marketplace
For more details, visit the Zephyr Workbench
Well, yes and no.
The stm32cubeIde makes you work with HAL only. If you have an ongoing project and lot of your libs based on SPL then sw4stm32 is your only feasible option, imo.
I’ve just quick-tested the stm32cubeIde and can’t see no other option than HAL.