In this chapter, I will be taking a look at alternatives to the Arduino IDE. There are a number of such IDEs, but the two I shall be concentrating on are PlatformIO and, although it’s no longer an actual alternative to the Arduino IDE, the Arduino CLI.
6.1 What Are the Alternatives?
A number of alternatives to the Arduino IDE exist. Some are massive overkill such as the Microchip Studio (www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/microchip-studio), based on Microsoft Visual Studio and which only runs on Windows. MPLAB-X (www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-x-ide ...
