Arduino IDE 2.x vs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code

[nervusvagus]

Are there any advantages to Visual Studio Code over IDE 2.x? If you are using Visual Studio Code, what are your main reasons?

[ktauchathuranga]

VS Code have,
auto-completion,
COOL COLORSS,
and some other stuff,

but its all comes to your personal preference.
i mean if you are familiar with VS Code you gonna really like the platformino in VS Code.
and if your are working on a huge and large project ill recommend you to use VS Code!

[cotestatnt]

One of my favorite things with VS Code that keeps me using it is that the settings are at the project level and not the whole IDE level.
I usually use it with the "arduino" extension (by default it uses Arduino CLI)

With PlatformIO this takes things one level further

[ptillisch]

@ktauchathuranga

auto-completion

Arduino IDE 2.x has it as well:

The Autocomplete Feature | Arduino Documentation

@ktauchathuranga

COOL COLORSS

Arduino IDE 2.x comes with four pre-installed themes available for selection via the "Theme" menu in the primary preferences dialog. In addition, two more are available via the advanced settings and any VS Code theme extension can be installed (including custom ones you make yourself):

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#3rd-party-themes

That said, it is true that VS Code has better theming support (e.g., easier for user to install 3rd party themes, easier for user to modify installed themes). However, I feel that the theming support provided by Arduino IDE 2.x will be sufficient for most users. For those users who are more interested in getting to work with microcontrollers than decorating their development environment with a lot of pretty colors, I think most will be satisfied with one of the four themes available out of the box. For the rest, I think they will be able to get the results they want using a 3rd party or custom theme with a bit of extra effort.

[ktauchathuranga]

yeah, i agree,
what i ment there is, its easy if the user is already VS Code user, for example if he doing python or any other lang in VS Code. it might be easy to program arduino in VS Code. cuz its more familiar.