This is generally a more friendly way to get people going, but the editor is awful. I tend to use emacs quite a bit. Note that the Arduino IDE does ship with

This is generally a more friendly way to get people going, but the editor is awful. I tend to use emacs quite a bit. Note that the Arduino IDE does ship with Makefiles for doing builds and installations via the CLI. In fact, on debian, there's an "arduino-core" core package that contains all the parts you need without the GUI (or java for that matter). I run it on an ARM-based Linux box I've got.