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2021-02-10 3:27 pm
Hi everyone,
There has been a lot of interest in using a more modern IDE than the standard Arduino one these days, and for good reasons... code completion, debugger, source control, code explorer, etc. VSCode offers such functionality and has been gaining a lot of support, and the new Arduino Pro IDE (still in alpha) looks promising, and is causing a lot of interest too, but still no final date for a production ready version has been provided.
Having said that however, there is another IDE that is rarely mentioned and almost forgotten about, which I have been testing out for a little while, and I have to say that I'm very impressed with it to date - That IDE is "Eclipse".
I simply downloaded it, installed the Arduino plugin (there are a few to choose from), installed a themes plugin, downloaded the microcontroller boards and libraries, and configured a serial port, and some IDE preferences, and that's it.
Here are some screen shots:
It has come a long way since I last used it, and works perfectly, so far.
Cheers.
2021-02-10 4:55 pm
That is good information. I mean, I too have used Eclipse mostly for students who came in to learn basic or core java (they dont teach this Basic / Core Java at school level in many Indian schools, today). So I do have some experience with it. It is a richer experience definitely because of the scope it provides for Classes etc. And now that you mention the Arduino Plugin, that would definitely have me interested.
I have no major issues with the Arduino IDE (1.8.x), but would have preferred it to provide the class explorers at least for the Libraries that we include - as I mentioned on another thread, it is always risky to open up these from their original source for reading - I mean we can always unknowingly get a key pressed whilst reading them and that may complicate matters.
I am downloading Eclipse with the Arduino Plugin and give it a try.
Life is exploring and learning
frogandtoad reacted
2021-02-10 6:54 pm
If there are multiple Arduino plugins for Eclipse, is there one that is more popular than the others, or is recommended?
Topic starter
2021-02-11 4:30 am
If there are multiple Arduino plugins for Eclipse, is there one that is more popular than the others, or is recommended?
Here is an image showing the available plugins from the Marketplace search:
You can see that I have installed the first one as I have highlighted, even though they recommend installing the one below (due to no longer being maintained), which seems more popular looking at the numbers, I am very happy with the way this one works, so I didn't even bother trying the other one 🙂
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Looks like that recommended one comes as both a plugin, and an IDE.
Cheers.
Sid reacted
2021-02-11 1:07 pm
Thanks! I think I have heard the name Sloeber in a video or perhaps I've read about it in an article somewhere. I don't particularily like Eclipse but I will definitely try it as I'm not really enjoying PlatformIO (which also comes with a really version of FreeRTOS apparently).