PlatformIO vs Carbide | What are the differences?

Overview

PlatformIO

Stacks111

Followers150

Votes18

Carbide

Stacks2

Followers20

Votes0

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.

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Detailed Comparison

PlatformIO	Carbide
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 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.
C/C++ Intelligent Code Completion ;Smart Code Linter for the super-fast coding;Multi-projects workflow with Multiple Panes.;Themes Support with dark and light colors;Built-in Terminal with PlatformIO CLI tool	Requires no installation or setup;Supports Javascript/ES2015;Imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub;Saves and loads directly to and from Github Gists
Statistics
Stacks 111	Stacks 2
Followers 150	Followers 20
Votes 18	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 7 Support for various Embedded Boards 5 It is the best 3 Integrates with VSCode and Atom 1 CLI (command line tools 1 CI (continous integration)	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	npm JavaScript GitHub

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