PIO IDE

PIO IDE is the next-generation integrated development environment for IoT.

  • Cross-platform build system without external dependencies to the OS software:

  • Debugging

  • Remote Development

  • Unit Testing

  • C/C++ Intelligent Code Completion

  • C/C++ Smart Code Linter for rapid professional development

  • Library Manager for the hundreds popular libraries

  • Multi-projects workflow with multiple panes

  • Themes support with dark and light colors

  • Serial Port Monitor

  • Built-in Terminal with PIO Core (CLI) and CLI tool (pio, platformio)

  • Built-in PIO Home.

We provide official packages (plugins, extensions) for the most popular IDEs and text editors.

Note

In our experience, PIO IDE for VSCode offers better system performance, and users have found it easier to get started

PIO for VSCode

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Install PIO for VSCode / Get started

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