What software to you guys use for coding?

Randal_B · June 19, 2015, 3:48pm

I was using Sublime Text + Stino (arduino IDE addon) which was working great.

However, it seems the new Arduino and Teensyduino dont work well with it and I can no longer compile/upload to my Teensys.

I really like Sublime Text, so I’m thinking I may have to revert back to the old arduino version and teensyduino version from last year.

Used to be all linux based, but I have a few windows laptops now.

Jason_Coon · June 19, 2015, 4:04pm

Have you tried using Arduino with the ‘Use external editor’ preference checked? With that checked you can use whatever editor you’d like, and just use Arduino/Teensyduino to Verify/Compile/Upload.

Andrew_Tuline · June 19, 2015, 4:13pm

I’ve had my ups and downs with Sublime Text + Stino.

With the ‘Use external editor’ checked, when you go to compile, the IDE will reload and display the updated code, so that’s not a bad option.

Randal_B · June 19, 2015, 4:30pm

@Andrew_Tuline what do you currently use instead of sublime?

marmil · June 19, 2015, 4:45pm

I use the “Use external editor” option and Notepad++.

Randal_B · June 19, 2015, 4:53pm

ah ya, i forgot about notepad++!

James_Carruthers · June 19, 2015, 11:02pm

Atom.io is pretty fantastic - and free.

I migrated to it after being a long term Sublime fan.

Lars_Walpurgis · June 20, 2015, 1:23pm

I am using visual Studio and the visual micro addon to program arduino and teensy. And it works wonderful with all advantages of visual Studio

Jarrod_Wagner · June 20, 2015, 5:56pm

^^ VS and VM for me too. Requires a little more setup getting the cores set for teensy bit there’s a guide on Visual Micro for doing do.

Andrew_Tuline · June 20, 2015, 6:39pm

@Randal_B I’m temporarily using the default IDE, but will play around with the external editor option and Sublime. Either that, or get Stino running again.

Update: Just got it running by setting Stino preferences and adding the arduino bin directory to my path.

David_Rosenthal · June 20, 2015, 11:03pm

Newbie question: what’s the benefit of using an external editor?

Randal_B · June 20, 2015, 11:30pm

lots of them have added features which help make coding much more bearable. lol. Arduino IDE is extremely basic.

Im using the external editor preference and it works fairly well so far. Doing all my coding in Sublime, and verifying/uploading on the arduino ide. the code auto updates in the Arduino IDE which is nice.

Luminous_Elements · June 20, 2015, 11:42pm

For Arduino Uno, Pro Mini, and pure-C ATTiny85, I’ve used Eclipse, plus the Arduino Eclipse plugin[1].

For Teensy, I’m using the makefile from the Teensyduino code[2], and since GNU Make handles the build, I can switch between IDEs freely. So far, I’m using KDevelop, which is alright but doesn’t have a lot of refactoring features built-in – but it still has the advantage of being able to build and program with one keypress (although since that’s in the makefile target, any IDE could trigger that).

[1] http://www.baeyens.it/eclipse/
[2] /arduino-164/hardware/teensy/avr/cores/teensy3/