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Maybe it depends on your preferences. As someone who enjoys "suckless" tools on Linux, it makes me happy when I can avoid VS Code, however, many embedded projects out there just default to Platform IO. A simpler Arduino IDE is an advantage for me. With a more capable Arduino IDE, maybe there will be less VS Code dependence.

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As I understand it this is really just a specifically configured vs code fork for arduino.

>The new IDE is based on the Eclipse Theia framework, which is an open source project based on the same architecture as VS Code (language server protocol, extensions, debugger).

You can use PlatformIO from the command line, so it should work with any editor in principle. (It’s written in Python.) The main thing missing would be the glue code to tell the editor which directories to find header files.

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