PlatformIO thoughts?

[jollytopper]

I was referred to try using PlatformIO with VSCode to debug, but I recall seeing poor reviews of PlatformIO. Does anyone have experience they would like to share regarding using PlatformIO with ESP32?

[mikemoy]

What would you like to know about it?
The best thing to do is try it yourself.

[jollytopper]

You're right. I have it downloaded. I'm going to try it myself.

[chromebin]

You're right. I have it downloaded. I'm going to try it myself.

Many things are supposed to work, but don't, probably for supposedly trivial reasons. Sure I "tried" PlatformIO. But no joy. I tried because of VSCode, no joy. Maybe someone with more experience with both has more luck. In my experience only Arduino is consistent, but off of the main track. Eclipse is hit and miss, surprisingly (I thought I'd never say this) my favorite when things work (using the Visual Studio shortcuts theme), a lot of pain when they don't (...).

Sometimes with a tool you discover problems very late in the process. So asking around seems *wise* to me. All tools have problems, there is no clear winner and there pain everywhere. So sharing helps.

[Snipesy]

I think if you are starting out or have a newish project you should go all in on the new CMake capabilities. That will make your project very easy to migrate between IDEs and CMake support is only going to make things better long term.

More importantly that lets you use CLion. Hint hint.