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As someone who has spent a lot of time programming Arduino I welcome this new IDE. IMO the thing that has always held back Arduino was the programming interface

As someone who has spent a lot of time programming Arduino I welcome this new IDE. IMO the thing that has always held back Arduino was the programming interface and the lack of tooling to write correct code. This is super important since this is targeted at students who will shoot themselves in the foot when they forget a letter in a function and they have to wade through gcc error codes. The arduino CLI is always very much welcome. It's sad that this is all coming out in 2021, rather than 2014 when Arduino was on a fast adoption trajectory. I feel that the lack of good IDE/tooling really hurt the adoption rate.

bredren 5y ago
We used the Arduino IDE a fair amount building the code for an interactive art piece we deployed at the 2019 burn. https://skylarkcollective.com/blog/2020/01/27/the-listener-at-burning-man-2019/ https://skylarkcollective.com/blog/2020/01/27/the-listener-a... I believe we had to use the official arduino IDE to compile because we were working with a Teensy to get extra power and processor. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ When getting really detailed with gameplay and audio cues it was always easier to just make edits in the IDE to test again and again. It was missing a lot of conveniences that would have made the project easier. I work with Pycharm most of the time so the Arduino IDE was like the land before time. I’m glad to see this, it is important for early skill building to have some semblance of modern dev tooling.