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That's a very good idea. I always found it pretty strange that Espressif spends so much work maintaining different IDE offers – the IDEA-based one, Arduino, and the VSCode-Extension.

It is really convenient to use ESP-IDF with VS Code ,for example, use OpenOCD for debugging.

I am still working to know which is the least painful.

it is not difficult to imagine that a possible commercial war result in windows machines, misbehaving

well, actually, current win11 is a snooping machine

anyone noticed how it is mandatory to have a microsoft account AND the push for "recall"

for your safety, obviously

I am still working to know which is the least painful.

Same. Old Eclipse with `make` was problematic to setup at first, but once figured out it worked well. Then `Cmake` was introduced and added some flaws. Now the `clang` was introduced with even more flaws. From my point of view new features are added, which I don't *directly* need, but also more flaws are added which disrupt my workflow and some are very annoying.

I was pretty much forced at some point to switch to VSCode, which solves some issues, but adds its own. Like sdkconfig editor is far worse to navigate in VSCode than in Eclipse, for example. Or UI with those tiny icons at bottom bar..

Now using both, depending which annoys me the least at the time.

I cannot use windows because reliability and spyware (windows itself)

I am on Linux devuan daedalus and eclipse has become shit, slow, really slow and keeps messing up the gui content

All it does is making things easy for a novice and really difficult for someone that knows what to do, basically, idiocracy

the latest ? I had to .metadata/.plugins$ rm -rf org.eclipse.e4.workbench/ to have it START since it did hang on boot

then, to attempt to limit the messing up I installed ONLY the tools I needed esp-adf/esp-idf$ ./install.sh esp32c6

all is nice from the console, can compile and flash, but eclipse does not work at all, BROKEN

the tools we have now are WORSE than the tools we had 20 years ago

DUMP what has been done in the last 20 years, it is an unreliable mess

I am attempting to get https://www.codeblocks.org/ up to speed

maybe some other soul has tried it ?

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