Alternatives to the Arduino IDE
Norman Dunbar · Apress eBooks · 2020
A number of alternatives to the Arduino IDE exist. Some are massive overkill such as the Atmel Studio 7 ( www.microchip.com/mplab/avr-support/atmel-studio-7 ), based on Microsoft Visual Studio and which only runs on Windows, and MPLAB-X ( www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-x-ide ). Others such as the AVR Eclipse Plugin ( http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/The_AVR_Eclipse_Plugin ) are plugins for the Eclipse IDE, a Java-based IDE on steroids, and again quite large. This chapter looks at two other, smaller, alternatives and the two which I will be investigating here are