Can anybody recommend a socketed 8051 dev board?

[c64]

BTW I installed Simplicity Studio to try to code up some 8051 although I don't yet have a device. Miserable experience!

1. You have to sign up for a silabs account and then use that to sign in to the IDE
2. Was unable to find a way to create an assembly lang. source file in the IDE, everything seem based on C. I'm sure there must be a way to do it, but I could not find it
3. Tried to turn off "User Experience" option in the IDE which sends my info to silabs. That caused it to open the signon screen again, I signed on, the option I wanted to disable was reenabled, and that got into an infinite loop of me unchecking the box, having to sign in, returning to the IDE only to find that the option was checked again.
4. Uninstall, go find all silabs crapfiles all over the users directory, delete.

Try Simplicity Studio 4 from this page
https://www.silabs.com/developers/simplicity-studio/simplicity-studio-version-4

It has download for the "8-bit 8051 MCU Version 4.1.7.0"

[c64]

I always install new software inside VM first. If I don't like it, takes only couple of seconds to clean it up