The Evolution of Arduino Pro IDE: A New Era for Developers

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Arduino is undoubtedly one of the most popular IDEs in the world. It is portable, flexible, and incredibly easy to get started with. It comes with standard and rich peripherals and interfaces, allowing anyone with a basic understanding of C language to develop simple projects. Moreover, its extensibility is excellent, and it is used by millions of geeks worldwide for design and development, with countless open-source projects available online. However, it has always struggled to attract many advanced developers.

On Saturday, October 19 at 16:00 Central European Time, foundersMassimo Banzi and Luca Ciprianireleased a new software version, the Arduino Pro IDE, a brand new enhanced IDE has finally arrived, although it is justan Alpha version.

Some features of the new version:

1. Two modes: one is the traditional mode, which is not much different from the previous version;

The second mode is the professional mode, where we can view function definitions, etc., and easily read the source code of each library inside, and functions can also be previewed, as shown below:

This cool dark mode somehow feels reminiscent of another software It turns out to be Visual Studio Code. Let’s compare, and it really looks quite similar

To summarize the new features provided by thisalpha version:

• A fully functional modern development environment

• Dual modes: classic mode (same as Arduino IDE) and professional mode (file system view)

• New board manager

• New library manager

• Board list

• Code auto-completion

• Git integration

• Serial debugger

• Dark mode

This new version brings many new advanced features and functionalities requested by the Arduino community, with a complete version to be provided in future updates, such as synchronization with Arduino Create Editor’s Sketch, a debugger, full openness to third-party plugins, and support for other languages. The new Arduino Pro IDE is now available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux 64 versions.

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