http://labs.arduino.org/Arduino+Studio
https://github.com/arduino-org/ArduinoStudio
Strangely nobody speaks about it….it doesn’t looking sooo bad.
From the forum:
Yes, it’s correct, we have started from the board with on-board MCU; we are planning to shortly provide support for the ARM architecture and immediately after that a new feature allowing the use to add repositories for other architectures, related toolchain and libraries;
Unless they incorporate some decent, cross-architecture debug capability, they are wasting their time. This smells of a web-backend even though it is mentioned only once and the ‘standalone’ word is used in the same sentence. Ummmm. Does the world really need another MBED?
Ray
I think you will see more of this in the future. The Texas Instruments beta of their online editor came out a little while ago. Seems to work pretty well. http://dev.ti.com. The “CCS Cloud” is their version of putting Code Composer Studio online. I find some features of it useful, mainly the ability to use their for fee compiler ($495) msp430 compiler for free without code size limits. The offline CCS is code size limited to 16k on the msp430 (16 bit pdp11 clone) and 32k on the msp432 (ARM cortex-m4f). I think it is based on this stuff: https://c9.io/
With the speed of the internet constantly going higher, I think you will see more and more of this. Sadly, I think more and more desktop apps will become deprecated and those using desktops will only be dudes like us running windows xp.
-rick
I just downloaded it and it is 127M
Wait .. I just downloaded it and it is 127M for linux .. hardly mbed … * goes off to install it to see what it is all about.
There is the other side of that coin when people don’t update. A problem gets identified, the maintainers fix it and then people don’t update. Then in the forums there are always people asking about something that has already been fixed. Both approaches have their issues.
-rick
I just wasted 250Mb worth of my Internet bandwidth quote downloading Arduino Studio for Windows, and I it appears to be a glorified HTML editor
Actually I’m not sure it unzipped correctly on my machine, I got a load of warnings about paths being unstably deep.
Ive ended up with 90% of the UI being the message window and only 1 line at the top for the editor.
Pressing upload seems to compile and then do nothing i.e Not upload.
I understand that companies now release preview / RC versions for people to look at, but this is version 0.0.1 so is Pre Alpha, currently seem to be a complete waste of time.
That’s not to say it won’t eventually be usable but only time will tell whether they bother to put the time and effort into making it usable.
I suspect they may have been better off customising Eclipse rather than using something that has not been used for embedded dev before.
However I suspect they are going for a HTML based IDE, because its an easy way to get cross platform, including onto Android, as well as also offering a cloud based solution.
I note with the “Spark” “Photon” boards that I have, that the IDE is effectively online only. But I wonder whether online is the correct space for development programs, for all but the most trivial applications, or for educational purposes.
I suspect these organisations don’t understand their user base, and think that people who want to develop for Arduino, are the same sort of people who want to edit their selfies online before uploading to instragram
There is the other side of that coin when people don’t update. A problem gets identified, the maintainers fix it and then people don’t update. Then in the forums there are always people asking about something that has already been fixed. Both approaches have their issues.
-rick