PlatformIO - Arduino Alternative IDE for IoT Integrated Platform

When developing Arduino sketch, we all use Arduino IDE, anyway, there are several Arduino alternative IDE. This alternative IDEs are useful and more user-friendly.

Arduino IDE is the first IDE we all use when approaching to Arduino development for the first time. It is simple and provides all the features to write, compile and upload the code to Arduino boards. It is based on Java and runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. Arduino IDE is a complete solution, anyway, it does not have all the features you could find in Eclipse or IntelliJ.

Platformio is an interesting alternative IDE that provides almost all the features I was looking for.

First of all, it is opensource and you can find the source code at GitHub repository. Second, it is free to use and it has a large community that supports it.

• C/C++ Code Completion
• Multi-project
• Theme support
• Cross-platform support
• Serial port monitor
• Library management system
• Continuous integration

This is IDE has a clean and easy-to-use interface, very attractive. It offers not only a visual IDE to develop IoT projects but it has a CLI (Command Line Interface). It is based on Python and runs on different OS like Windows, OS X and Linux.The main features are:

This Arduino alternative IDE supports several boards like Arduino UNO, Arduino MKR1000 and in general Arduino development boards. Moreover, it supports Raspberry PI family and so on. So this is a complete solution to develop IoT projects in an easy and intuitive way. The interface is completely different compared to Arduino IDE.

Arduino alternative IDE: Platformio - Geek On Java