A side-by-side comparison of an "Old Editor" on a bulky CRT monitor with a mechanical keyboard and a "Modern IDE" on a slim flatscreen monitor with an RGB backlit keyboard.

I Used Arduino IDE for 3 Months. Then I Found VS Code + PlatformIO and Never Went Back

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The Confession I have a secret. Before I started playing with robots, I already loved VS Code (But that doesn’t mean I’m blindly biased toward it 🫠). I used it for Python. I used it for web dev (when uni assignments briefly let me be creative). I had my themes perfect. My snippets are ready. […]

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