The basic Arduino IDE lacks a lot of the sophistication present in other IDEs such as code completion, code collapsing, folder organisation, and more. Are there other IDEs that allow programming in C/C++ and improve on these aspects?
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What are the other IDEs for Arduino?
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Expanding on Fake Name's answer, there is also Visual Micro's Arduino plugin for Atmel Studio (built off Visual Studio). It shares the tools, sources and libraries with the Arduino IDE but provides all the code completion and other features of Visual Studio.
answered Feb 12 '14 at 9:28
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One rather good IDE extension is the Arduino Mode for Emacs. It allows using a highly versatile and extensible IDE such as Emacs for writing, compiling and uploading code to the Arduino.
The documentation and instructions can be found here.
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Expanding on Fake Name's answer, there is also Visual Micro's Arduino plugin for Atmel Studio (built off Visual Studio). It shares the tools, sources and libraries with the Arduino IDE but provides all the code completion and other features of Visual Studio.
answered Feb 12 '14 at 9:28
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AtmelStudio is ponderous and a bit quirky -- as many Microsoft creations -- but powerful and ultimately very useful. I've completed three projects for the Due and find it very facile. Recommend the J-Link emulator by Segger. - BobStein-VisiBone Feb 12 '14 at 17:14
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