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Ah, I thought it was something new, perhaps offering a IDE built on modern tech. It looks like it's built on old Win32 common controls, surely with poor text ed
by deburo 2y ago
Ah, I thought it was something new, perhaps offering a IDE built on modern tech. It looks like it's built on old Win32 common controls, surely with poor text editing features.
I wonder who's going to be the first to integrate something like VSCode in their dev environment.
The dev tools in the industrial automation industry are so depressing, luckily we have the excellent Ignition (from Inductive Automation) for HMI/SCADA development.
- gaze 2y agoModern tech like electron? Qt might have been nice but win32 is snappy and dependable.
- fragmede 2y agoA number of places have VSCode extenstions for their dev environment, eg ExpressIF for Esp32.
- stefcoetzee 2y agoSIMATIC AX seems to be a step in the direction of VSCode integration.
- deburo 2y agoOh this is interesting. Tia Portal v19 has this clunky capability in which you can export, edit, reimport all scripts of a project via a vscode extension that communicates with the Tia Portal process. All that effort just to have better autocompletion, but the export/import loop feels inefficient & some scripts just can’t be exported.
- airbreather 2y agoJust about all PLCs have had export import for decades, more recently via xml.
- Gracana 2y agoI gave this a shot a while back and it's as clunky as it looks in the screenshots, so about the same as the established industry.