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Carbide vs PlatformIO: What are the differences?
Carbide: A New Programming Environment. Carbide is a new kind of programming environment which (as obligatory in this day and age): requires no installation or setup, supports Javascript/ES2015, imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub, saves and loads; PlatformIO: Next-generation IDE for IoT. PlatformIO is an open source ecosystem for IoT development. Cross-platform build system and library manager. Continuous and IDE integration. Arduino and MBED compatible. Ready for Cloud compiling.
Carbide and PlatformIO can be primarily classified as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.
Some of the features offered by Carbide are:
- Requires no installation or setup
- Supports Javascript/ES2015
- Imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub
On the other hand, PlatformIO provides the following key features:
- C/C++ Intelligent Code Completion
- Smart Code Linter for the super-fast coding
- Multi-projects workflow with Multiple Panes.
PlatformIO is an open source tool with 3.22K GitHub stars and 420 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PlatformIO's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Carbide
Pros of PlatformIO
- Support for various Embedded Boards7
- It is the best5
- Integrates with VSCode and Atom3
- Device monitor filters1
- CI (continous integration)1
- CLI (command line tools1