Would you recommend that a beginner starts using the 2.0 IDE, or should they start with the 1.8 version and upgrade to 2.0 later? I personally would say the 1.8 version, but that's just my opinion. What would you tell a beginner?
I would suggest starting with version 1 if you are a programming beginner but version 2 if you are an Arduino beginner with programming experience using other IDEs as you are likely to have higher expectations
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That is a really good answer! Are there other IDEs similar to the Arduino one?
I don't know. Most of my coding before using the Arduino IDE was done in a text editor and some even on a terminal text window so even the simple IDE was a revelation to me
As a result the lack of features was not a problem as what I gained was plenty to be going on with. Subsequently I tried PlatformIO and found it fairly overwhelming and full of features that I did not need at the time
IDE 1 met its objectives fairly well but also annoyed experienced programmers due to lack of features hence my original reply
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Although it is maybe debatable whether it should be called an "IDE", VS Code is at least used in place of an IDE by millions of developers. Arduino IDE 2.x is built on a framework which is based on the free open source VS Code source code and UI design. So Arduino IDE 2.x inherits some UI conventions from VS Code, though it has been custom tailored to the specific application of Arduino sketch development. So I think anyone experienced with VS Code will find the Arduino IDE 2.x UI familiar.
VS Code was also not developed in a vacuum. As a relatively recently created application, it inherits many conventions established by earlier IDEs and text editors. Although I haven't used it recently enough to say for sure, I would guess there is quite a bit of similarity to Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE (similarly named to VS Code but a completely separate software product).
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may i know how i install 1.9.0 beta for window or linux
Welcome to the forum
Where have you seen version 1.9.0 mentioned ?
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