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

dougw

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?

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  • I voted for VS Code because it's the one I use the most, generally speaking (just like someone else already said; mostly as a text editor, and I do the build/programming from the command line or with a plugin/extension like PlatformIO). Having said that, VSCode is still a bit of an overcomplicated way to do embedded, when there's better supported options available. If my target is supported by the Arduino IDE for example, and I don't intend to do extreme low level coding, I'd pick Arduino over VSCode.

    Eclipse and Keil are also options that have (at least last time I checked) better debugging capabilities than VSCode and/or Arduino (at least for MCUs), so if I anticipate that I'll be doing a lot of step-by-step debugging and I have the hardware to do debugging on my target, I'd go straight to Eclipse or Keil, whatever is supported by the platform.

    Finally, I spent a lot of time using MPLAB when I was younger, but I slowly stopped doing after they turned it into a Netbeans-based constant-crashing memory-hungry IDE (i.e: MPLAB X) so I've not checked whatever MPLAB is today, and how it compares to the other options, but maybe I should, just to have a more informed, current opinion about it.

  • in reply to battlecoder

    Well, two years ago it still was MPLAB X and still a weirdly unstable environment.

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