First impression IDE 2.0

[obel_ix]

Hey,

just downloaded:

Version: 2.0.0-beta.12
Date: 2021-11-30T10:47:59.437Z
CLI Version: 0.20.1 [abb21449]

Copyright © 2021 Arduino SA

First impressions:

Pros:

1. HUGE improvement over version 1
2. looks fancy enough
3. Smooth experience (Don't know how you did it, but the IDE "feels" better than the old one when using, maybe bc I'm used to vs code though)

Cons:

1. Took a while to enable autocompletion
   a) The option is displayed prominently, but for me it was hard to find, because of the name "editor quick suggestions" when skimming for "autocomplete". Also in other IDEs I used, it was enabled by default
   b) unfortunately, first google result only tells you to add a board.:
   https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/getting-started-with-ide-v2/ide-v2-autocomplete-feature
   c) The missing info luckily can be found in the second result:
   https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4406711538450-Enable-autocomplete-in-IDE-2-0
2. Dark mode is enabled by default, but switches to light when clicking "OK" after changing settings. Will do a reinstall later to test if it didn't happen by accident.
3. On Thinkpad T480s takes nearly a minute for startup

Suggestions:

• Make Autocomplete easier to enable, e.g. by editing 1.b) and including information from 1.c)
• tbc

Conclusion:

• Can't wait for the 2.0 release version to make version 1 obsolete
• Only small inconveniences, which might be personal preference of mine

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Kind regards!

[ptillisch]

Thanks for your valuable feedback @obel_ix!

@obel_ix

unfortunately, first google result only tells you to add a board.:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/getting-started-with-ide-v2/ide-v2-autocomplete-feature

The tutorial was written prior to the current "editor quick suggestions" preference implementation, and never updated. I have notified the tutorial author about the problem.

@obel_ix

Dark mode is enabled by default, but switches to light when clicking "OK" after changing settings.

This bug is being tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

Dark theme is used on clean start despite "Light (Arduino)" being the default