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Switching from Arduino IDE to PlatformIO, worth the curve?

Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 3:06 am
by mark_ee_qc
Thesis is dragging Arduino IDE to its limits. Library conflicts every other day, autocomplete sucks, dependency management feels like 2008.

Heard good things about PlatformIO. Real questions:
  • Learning curve, gaano katagal bago productive?
  • Does the same code run unchanged, or rewrites needed?
  • Worth it for one-shot thesis projects, or only pays back on longer-term builds?
Anyone here switch midway through a project? Regret it?