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PlatformIO, open source ecosystem for IoT

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Re: PlatformIO, open source ecosystem for IoT

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One major error in principle is that PlatformIO will infiltrate an existing Atom installation. PlatformIO can not be installed in parallel (as far as I know) and it will not warn before doing serious changes to your nicely nurtured Atom configuration.

Re: PlatformIO, open source ecosystem for IoT

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post #6

One major error in principle is that PlatformIO will infiltrate an existing Atom installation. PlatformIO can not be installed in parallel (as far as I know) and it will not warn before doing serious changes to your nicely nurtured Atom configuration.

Not sure why they switched from providing a customized Atom installation. Whenever I first used it, on OSX I got a binary that was customized.

Recently I installed it again and the instructions had changed to modify an existing installlation

Re: PlatformIO, open source ecosystem for IoT

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I've only heard good things about PlatformIO, but it always seems like they sorta reinvented the wheel instead of using existing tools. They've done a LOT of the hard work of making stuff "just-work", but why didn't they do all this using the normal tool-chain like CMake/git/GNU-tools/crosstool-NG/etc.?

Is there something extra I'm missing that you can't do with the existing tools? Or is it to get some kind of lock-in and promote a commercial product? I've only done a very little programming for Arduino and the ESP8266 (where you can get the normal toolchain running... with some effort), but I got the impression that the embedded world has been trying to move away from magic "platforms" that do things for you in the background

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