arduino-cli VS theia

There's a vscode extension you can install that uses the arduino backend to compile and upload new sketches. You'll have to have the IDE/CLI already installed. If you want to avoid the IDE entirely I'd recommend the CLI available on github here and the instructions for the vscode extension can be found on circuitstate here. Good luck!

The Arduino folks also make the Arduino-CLI if you like typing at the shell like me: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli

[6]: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/issues/740

[7]: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+%28bou.ke%7C...

> I'm sure you can still develop in VSCode with third-party plugins.

The Arduino IDE 2.0 uses the ArduinoCLI as backend and they comunicate through a gRPC API, most functionalities are implemented only in the latter. It's technically feasible to create a VSCode plugin. :)

> (To be honest though, I would have been happy enough if they built it in Emacs, even if similar objections apply.)

Never used Emacs but I think it should be doable to integrate the ArduinoCLI as a plugin, if you want to take a try at it I suggest you read the docs. The gRPC is still not 100% stable though, I made a big refactoring in the initialization steps recently that still needs to be merged.

https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/

I created some BitBake recipes to compile Arduino sketches using arduino-cli during a Yocto/Bitbake build. The (perhaps less convenient) alternatives would be to:

eclipse theia is that alternative, almost same as vscode but even better (more extensible, portable, etc), and even the fsf regards the eclipse license as free software, and in any case, if you're not happy with the eclipse license you can have it under the GPL anyway, it's dual license https://theia-ide.org/

The new 2.0 IDE is based on [Eclipse Theia](https://theia-ide.org

You should also take a look at Theia, which provides in some respects (e.g., graphical plugins) a more powerful alternative to the VSCode editing shell.

Let me discredit that immediately: https://theia-ide.org/

Has NetBeans announced a full IDE with that language server? JetBrains has Fleet, Eclipse has a VS-Code-like platform called Theia for building IDEs.

Theia (https://theia-ide.org/), it's vscode in the cloud / your container

I wonder why not a VS Code plugin? Or starting with a better base platform for this like Theia

You can install code-server or theta IDE to use a lightweight and quite well made version of VS Code right from your browser for development on any device. You also get access to your VPS via our desktop client so you can run your bot via other methods if you don't wish to use code-server terminal to access your VPS.

https://theia-ide.org/ maybe?

I wish you used something like Theia for the IDE base.