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open-source microcontroller IDE

Moussa1492 
Hi everyone,

I’m building an open-source desktop IDE for microcontroller learning and prototyping, mainly focused on Arduino and STM32.

The goal is not to replace professional tools like STM32CubeIDE, PlatformIO, Keil or IAR, but to provide a simpler learning-oriented workflow for students, technicians and training centers.

Current / planned features:
- Arduino and STM32 project creation
- Build / upload workflow
- Serial monitor and serial plotter
- STM32 debug with GDB/OpenOCD
- Register / memory / stack views
- Basic SVD peripheral view
- Static analysis with cppcheck / MISRA-light
- Coverage reports
- Crash / HardFault reporting
- Power profiling demo via UART/SWO-style events
- QEMU/Renode simulation experiments

I’m looking for honest feedback:
1. Would such a tool be useful for education or training?
2. Which feature would be most valuable?
3. What would make you trust or not trust this kind of tool?
4. Would it be better as a VS Code extension, standalone IDE, or educational toolkit?
5. What pain points do you have with current embedded IDEs?

I’m not trying to promote a paid product here. I’m trying to validate whether this project should continue as an open-source educational tool or pivot toward a smaller specialized utility.

Thanks for any critical feedback.
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  • in reply to SensoredHacker0

    The responses on this page are not in chronological order, so it's easy to misunderstand when the OP mentioned AI (i.e. he mentioned it after my response).

    Anyway, as far as I understand so far, the OP has not identified an issue, but is asking if issue(s) exists, that perhaps AI (or otherwise) may be used to solve.

       is this a school project?  Normally one is motivated to solve a problem they've seen themselves or has been brought to their attention, hence odd that you've not identified any substantial problem so far, unless I've missed it, which is definitely possible. 

    As you're aware, AI is already used to gain help with coding and with debug and troubleshooting, in some parts within IDEs, and also with chat sessions. It wouldn't be surprising if many people already routinely get debugging and error message help with AI, especially beginners.