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PlatformIO vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Visual Studio Code? Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

PlatformIO belongs to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack, while Visual Studio Code can be primarily classified under "Text Editor".

"It is the best" is the primary reason why developers consider PlatformIO over the competitors, whereas "Powerful multilanguage IDE" was stated as the key factor in picking Visual Studio Code.

PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code are both open source tools. Visual Studio Code with 79.4K GitHub stars and 11.1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PlatformIO with 3.22K GitHub stars and 420 GitHub forks.

Decisions about PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code

Kamaleshwar BN

Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

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over

Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

Simon Ibssa

Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 1.3M views

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Visual Studio Code

over

Sublime Text

My Stack

I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of PlatformIO

Pros of Visual Studio Code

7
Support for various Embedded Boards
5
It is the best
3
Integrates with VSCode and Atom
1
Device monitor filters
1
CI (continous integration)
1
CLI (command line tools

340
Powerful multilanguage IDE
308
Fast
193
Front-end develop out of the box
158
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
142
Very basic but free
126
Git integration
106
Intellisense
78
Faster than Atom
53
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
45
Great Refactoring Tools
44
Good Plugins
42
Terminal
38
Superb markdown support
36
Open Source
35
Extensions
26
Awesome UI
26
Large & up-to-date extension community
24
Powerful and fast
22
Portable
18
Best code editor
18
Best editor
17
Easy to get started with
15
Lots of extensions
15
Good for begginers
15
Crossplatform
15
Built on Electron
14
Extensions for everything
14
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
14
All Languages Support
13
Easy to use and learn
12
"fast, stable & easy to use"
12
Extensible
11
Ui design is great
11
Totally customizable
11
Git out of the box
11
Useful for begginer
11
Faster edit for slow computer
10
SSH support
10
Great community
10
Fast Startup
9
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
9
Great language support
9
Powerful Debugger
9
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
8
Can compile and run .py files
8
Python extension is fast
7
Features rich
7
Great document formater
6
He is not Michael
6
Extension Echosystem
6
She is not Rachel
6
Awesome multi cursor support
5
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
5
Language server client
5
SFTP Workspace
5
Very proffesional
5
Easy azure
4
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
4
Supports lots of operating systems
4
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
4
Virtualenv integration
3
Better autocompletes than Atom
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
'batteries included'
3
More tools to integrate with vs
3
Emmet preinstalled
2
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
2
CMake support with autocomplete
2
Microsoft
2
Customizable
2
Light
2
Big extension marketplace
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
1
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Cons of PlatformIO

Cons of Visual Studio Code

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46
Slow startup
29
Resource hog at times
20
Poor refactoring
13
Poor UI Designer
11
Weak Ui design tools
10
Poor autocomplete
8
Super Slow
8
Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
8
Microsoft sends telemetry data
7
Poor in PHP
6
It's MicroSoft
3
Poor in Python
3
No Built in Browser Preview
3
No color Intergrator
3
Very basic for java development and buggy at times
3
No built in live Preview
3
Electron
2
Bad Plugin Architecture
2
Powered by Electron
1
Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
1
Slow C++ Language Server

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What is PlatformIO?

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.

What is Visual Studio Code?

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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What are some alternatives to PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code?

Eclipse

Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.

Arduino IDE

It makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing and other open-source software.

Atom-IDE

A collection of Atom UIs to support language services as part of Atom IDE, designed for use with packages built on top of atom-languageclient.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

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