What is your most used IDE? Is it also your Favorite?

dougw 5 months ago

Do you use the same IDE for every MCU or do you use different IDEs for different manufacturers?

This poll is about which one you use the most, but feel free to comment below if your favorite is not the one you use the most.

How long have you been using it?

Which popular IDEs are missing from this list?

vmate 5 months ago in reply to BigG

Zed itself is open source, the pro version is just some AI usage thing. Works the same way with all other editors, including VSCode. I'm more disappointed in the lack of basic features and their complete ignorance about the issue. 90% of the missing things would be probably a single day to implement for someone working at Zed.
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me_Cris 5 months ago

I still use the Arduino IDE because it's okay enough for my simple applications. Plus, it's been developed and covers the most common MCUs; we have plenty of libraries.
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BigG 5 months ago in reply to vmate

Hmmm, Zed does look promising but I see you have to pay for the pro version. At $10 per month I wonder if it's really worth it - you get $5 worth of tokens.
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vmate 5 months ago

VSCode is really nice, but it's getting too overcomplicated and bloated. It desperately needs some sort of profile system, as I regularly find myself having to enable and disable plugins to get things to work and not conflict. It's getting incredibly slow at times too.

Zed is looking promising for simpler things, but it's still missing very basic features after more than a year, which is a big disappointment. At this rate, not sure if it will ever reach a usable state for me.
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michaelkellett 5 months ago

I use the ARM/Keil IDE for ARM Cortex programming.

I have been using it for approx 20 years.

Before that I used IAR C compiler for Motorola 68HC11 and similar micro-controllers.

And Keil for Infineon and ST 166 16 bit micro-controllers.

MK
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kmikemoo 5 months ago in reply to shabaz

GW-BASIC and dBase III. Self taught from the physical manuals that came with the program. I was actually quite good - back in the day. Took classes but already knew everything they taught. Man, those were fun times.
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battlecoder 5 months ago in reply to shabaz

Loved text-based UIs. QBasic / Quick Basic and GW-BASIC were the first IDEs I used. Turbo C and Turbo Pascal came later. Love their simplicity.
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shabaz 5 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Now I recall QuickBASIC IDE! IDEs were so new to me I didn't realise I was using one.
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shabaz 5 months ago in reply to gpolder

That remote SSH connection capability to browse folders and work with code on Linux machines is brilliant. Such a well executed feature.
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SensoredHacker0 5 months ago

geany. I like simple. if I have to look 5 menus deep to find a basic function, that IDE sucks. I hate the editors that cover what Im trying to type with suggestions. aduino IDE used to be ok. the version 2 is too fkn busy, and it flashes you with a white screen even in dark mode, every time you save, or upload, I have light sensitivity, so thats no good. If i have to tell and AI to not break my code, thats a bad IDE.
intelij aint too bad, vscode isnt too bad.

neovim is pretty good.
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