I'm back ... what IDE should I use ?

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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After some years off the arduino I'm back and should install the IDE - I installed the version 2.3.2 !

BUT ...

  1. I think it's very slow, and often
  2. a text "Loading ..." is showing up ... I beleave it tries to show some details on the topic near the cursor,
  3. too, I thought "Intillisence" was implementes ... it just shows "Loading ..." forever !

what is wrong ?

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As your questions relate to IDE 2.x, I have moved your topic to the dedicated IDE 2.x section of the forum.

I don't have access at this moment to a system with IDE 2.x so can't advise. However, IDE 2.x was quite slow in loading on a 2nd generation I3 with 8 GB memory and non-SSD hard disks.

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Should I just stay in version 1.X or go PlatformIO ?

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I do not know what wisdom is; a number of the IDE 2.x feature are nice. I'm currently using a 32 bit version of IDE 1.8.19 and I do miss the autocomplete.

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Me too ... it's just showing me a text: "Loading ..." and I've never seen it finishing 'loading' ... so Intellisence/autocomplete my BEEP :rage:

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I like my 1.8.19 running on RPi Linux better than the 2.whatever I had.

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@ksor

When I updated to 2.x.x, the IDE almost became unusable and would never finish updates/downloads/loading of things… i couldn’t even type of letter of code without my computer fan running full speed and cpu overheating… :man_shrugging:t2:

Not sure if this will help you but it helped me tremendously. I limit and only allow the IDE access to half of my cpu cores…

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The hints may depend on the compiler back-end, which would vary for different boards. I'm using a vendor variant of arduino-esp32 v2.0.14. Seems like a full successful compile -- aka Verify -- is needed at startup. It kind of keeps up as I edit -- there are brief "Building sketch" messages in the bottom-left corner -- but I'm not surprised when it goes back to being stuck "Loading..."

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#kenb4
I think that's a sign to drop version 2 and got for PerformIO - right ?

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Is something wrong with IDE 1.8?

V2 is not V1 improved. It's some people's idea of better that's not finished baking yet.

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You must use what works for you. Test the options (IDE 2.x, IDE 1.x, PlatformIO, ...) and use what you like best.

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IDE 1.8 ... no I don't think something's wrong - I think you're right ... V2 is not finished baking !

When I last worked as a nobbyist with arduino I tried PerformIO and liked it - so I think I'll install that again

EDIT: I just tried to DELETE/RENAME some TABs for making them a library instead:

WHAT ??????

I can't delete a tab !!!
I can't rename a tab !!!

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