icestudio VS platformio-vscode-ide

In fact that docs are out of date and even more boards are supported and you can find the list directly in icestudio menu. If you want to check it beforehand, i think it's possible to see the list here in source code:

https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/tree/develop/app/resou...

This is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

They have drag and drop visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.

This is the project: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

I am slowly moving off my retro computing hobby. The last straw was recent chip shortage and crazy prices. I bought myself a copy of "The 8088 Project Book" and I wanted to build the presented 8088 breadboard computer. Guess what? The only factory that was building compatible 8088/8086 chips caught fire (Renesas factory fire). I had to order 20 year old chips for the price x2 of the new chips. But not only that, some chips are either unavailable or crazy expensive due to a lot of recent interests in retro-comp.

In other way, the hobby became unreasonably expensive for me. So I decided to move my interests into FPGA. The fun is almost the same, but the cost is way lower (you only need to buy a good board and a book, and you are set up). I started with this extremely simple IDE: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

As for this build, I have mixed feelings about using FPGAs to revive old computers. Can't we create something new out of it? It would be fun to have a _modern_ FPGA based SBC with easy to program graphics (memory mapped) and with simple device interface (I think USB is way too complicated for hobbyists). Just something powerful enough to create games, yet simple enough so that teenager can write a simple OS in his spare time.

There is a workaround for PlatformIO that I use to get it to work in VSCodium: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1...

The PlatformIO extension currently requires Microsoft's proprietary C/C++ extension, so it can't (officially) be used in the Arch community build. Here's a feature request to remove the dependency on the C/C++ extension: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1802

There is an open issue on their repo, it seems the ms-vscode.cpptools extension which it depends on isn't open source so it can't be published on Open VSX (the marketplace used by OSS builds of VSCode) until they manage to use the open source alternative as a replacement llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd

You might be experiencing a problem that has plagued a lot of people, which is explained in the GitHub issue report. If this is indeed the problem, there are workarounds for it. Good luck!

Thanks for the provided information. There is a reported issue https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/2554 and we work on reproducing. Please follow issue #2554.

I'm trying to install platformio on vscode, but I keep getting this error: Could not start PIO Home server: Error: timeout . It leads you this github page where you are prompted to open the PlatformIO IDE Terminal, but no matter which terminal I open (powershell, cmd, bash) the command is not recognised. What should I do?