PlatformIO Reviews & Product Details

Platformio is like Arduino IDE on steroids. More professional, more functionality and great plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a learning curve but nothing serious. You will be up and running in little time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PlatformIO supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, allowing developers to work on their preferred platform. PlatformIO supports a wide range of frameworks and libraries, making it easy to manage dependencies and integrate new components into your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While PlatformIO provides a lot of features and capabilities, it can have a steep learning curve for those who are new to IoT development or unfamiliar with its specific features and interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PlatformIO is the best option when programming an ESP32 using the ARDUINO environment. Unfortunately, the ARDUINO IDE to simplify leaves out very important things that are now accessible from PlatformIO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like PlatformIO to be a complete IDE and not a plugin that is installed in a third-party IDE like VS Code, however, it works optimally. It would seem more appropriate to me that it be a single unit of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating the IDE directly into VS code.

Support a lot of Hardware Platforms and Software frameworks.

Built-in debugging tools and performance analyzers.

Really good community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not recommended for small projects.

Only available in VS code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firstly the domain this platform is in isn't much crowded, and that's why finding something that has the most things you need has always been a struggle. But PlatformIO has provided such an amazing experience to everyone who uses it that there's no need to check out other solutions. In my opinion, the best features of the platform are -

- Remote Development: This is, I think industry-first feature that lets you code/work on your project. Even though you aren't connected from your system they provides you a virtual machine with great computing power where you can do pretty much everything.

- Great UI: PlatformIO has a great Developer friendly UI so that one won't face any UI/UX issue.

- Predefined debugging configs - Here comes the thoughtfulness of the platform obviously you can debug in this, but along with that the platform has provided pre declared configurations for debugging which really helps a lot.

- The unit testing feature is also works like a breeze Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing as such negative about PlatformIO, only thing I can think of which they can improve on is their documentation and regular blogs about new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing for me is that it is Open source. I also like its cross-platform IDE and Unified Debugger; it is very light & has helpful features like "smart code completion." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't come across anything that I dislike yet, but it is a bit difficult for the very new people or just getting started in the field of embedded development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PlatformIO provides a wide range of Arduino libraries, and It has support for many devices like esp32 Wroom, Arduino UNO, ATmega32, and many more. We can easily install libraries using the library manager, and the best part is it provides INI files where we can change Bouadrates, Port, and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While using PlatformIO, sometimes program upload related issues accrued, and sometimes it does not provide recommendations using CTRL + SPACE one point I notice is that it is copy white space! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how I can use one set of tools, and mix and match between VS Code IDE, or command line, among a plethora of target hardware and environments. The command line part has come in handy when running "remotely" using a raspberry pi over SSH as the development environment, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would be nice if the VSCode plugin was more integrated, i.e., if it knew about what project I had currently open. (If I'm working on project X, the platformio panels could adjust to reflect project X's board and prefs), But, the integration works fairly well. Also it would be helpful if the library search could give some more guidance—this is a hard problem, but even though there's popularity, the search order doesn't necessarily reflect the most successful and well maintained library, although the popularity does give some indication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Platformio for the last 3 years. Platformio has lots of tricks, shortcuts, AI auto-complete, and more, which can save your time and optimize coding look and format.

- A number of extra extensions can be used to optimize code, comments, colors, and format.

- Easy and descriptive tools to build and run.

- Lots of board/device support.

- All in one place.

- Run-time code assistant and auto format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So, as per my experience, I only face minor issues, but sometimes auto-complete stops working and needs a restart of VS Code or Platformio.

Everything else works like a charm 🙂. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PlatformIO is amazing in the way that allows you to access to an important quantity of developing hardware boards, also easy access to library repos and so on.

Give you different tools as well, as a serial monitor, a terminal, and so on.

Got everything you need, in one package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI on PlatformIO, could be quite an experience. I personally think would be nice if the allow you to choose between a variety of themes, because UI tend to be really dark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.