This was my intent. I have no intent to indicate that in any way am I ungrateful for the work as a whole. The IDE is a little quirky but I've paid hundreds of dollars for software that didn't do as much, as well as this IDE does. There are however some small things that could be better. As I pointed out I would love to change the font to a non serif type and to have line numbers.
Perhaps a little history is in order here. I started writing code with Quick Basic (PDS 7.1) early in my engineering career. I learned the '51 instruction set well enough to fix some code we shopped out. Later I went to the Pic and I used Parallax's Spasm because it was so similar to what I already knew and then I changed over to the Microchip IDE and developed some code for a PIC16C54 which got moved to a '57 (Gawd Awful chip with banked memory) C compilers were Very expensive and didn't work with the cheap small Proc's I needed for the job and they were even then notorious for producing somewhat bloated code compared to the assembler.
My point (finally) is that I learn best and fastest when I use the best tools around.
There are there are boundaries associated with both the chip and the code. There is a whole big part of C++ that I can never learn on an Arduino and this is my interest in code studio and the Arduino plugin. I intend to learn the boundaries as well as C++ I hope to graduate in both directions, Embedded controllers and Windows/Linux applications.
I am not going to be able to do that if I am restricted to the Arduino environment. This is my interest in the Visual Studio program. I can Study C++ in both environments in an easier, more complete manner, I feel.In the short 6 month's since March of this year I have a working GPS clock, a BMP085 Barometer and a working DHT22 humidity sensor, this from a cold start with C++. I follow the General Electronics section and contribute what I can, when I can and avidly read this section. The thread on Malloc was interesting as well as several others.
I've learned a lot but I need to learn more. I hope soon to be able to follow Prata's C++ Primer 6 on computer as well as in print and begin to make sense of this thing with the help of this forum...
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