I think the IDE's are highly overrated. Some may provide good product specific documentation, autocomplete, flashing and debugging. But most of the times they a

I think the IDE's are highly overrated. Some may provide good product specific documentation, autocomplete, flashing and debugging. But most of the times they are highly opinionated programs with their own quirks and annoyances you need to work around to get your code running on a chip. I would be sad to have to turn down a good chip because it has a bad IDE. I much more prefer good support for opensource framework's like platformio[0]. This way it hardly matters which specific chip I'm using, my workflow is mostly the same. And I can use the same editor, tools and methods I already use for developing all my other code without having to learn the quirks of new tools. [0] https://platformio.org/boards https://platformio.org/boards